tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194055897691199164.post1602587605417182613..comments2024-03-23T08:42:01.705+00:00Comments on People's Cycling Front of South Gloucestershire: The "medical condition" defenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194055897691199164.post-36021013253938085282017-12-30T13:34:11.203+00:002017-12-30T13:34:11.203+00:00So interestingly vasovagal syncope is explicitly e...So interestingly vasovagal syncope is explicitly excluded from driving bans because it is common, often has warning signs (prodrome), and happens less when standing... it is almost like this would mean the use of it as a defense is absurd: sufficiently unlikely that people can drive despite it unlikely other black out conditions yet magically sufficiently likely to avoid prosecution.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00969268812818301831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194055897691199164.post-34375156319104382692017-12-30T13:28:59.015+00:002017-12-30T13:28:59.015+00:00Ha. Identical thing happened to me. Added detail, ...Ha. Identical thing happened to me. Added detail, I gave evidence that the driver said they fell asleep after immediately getting out of the car. The figure I found for life time syncope is 40 percent.<br /><br />Actually within 4 to 5 years syncope recurrence returns to base rate (according to a paper I dupg up) which means that the Hill vs Baxter case means this probability can be dismissed.<br /><br />As an aside reasonable doubt is 5 ish percent according to research... so perhaps syncope should be considered pretty unlikely unless there is some evidence for it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00969268812818301831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194055897691199164.post-37329726798122243532016-05-28T16:38:41.444+01:002016-05-28T16:38:41.444+01:00If they have the history, report them to the DVLA....If they have the history, report them to the DVLA. They are clearly not safe to be driving. I say this as someone who stopped driving for 4 years for epilapey: you have to recognise that if society doesn't consider you safe to drive, that's a choice they get to make and you don't get to ignore.SteveLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07654931341335136008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194055897691199164.post-27191142333291717852016-05-27T23:53:38.957+01:002016-05-27T23:53:38.957+01:00This happened in my case. The driver claimed that ...This happened in my case. The driver claimed that they fainted at the wheel using medical records of vasovagal syncope (common fainting) from five years This makes prosecution pretty difficult because the defence has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that fainting didn't happen. Kind of difficult when fainting is completely asymptomatic!<br /><br />The particular problem here is that vasovagyl syncope affects about 22% of the population at some stage....Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00969268812818301831noreply@blogger.com