Suffering from multiple sclerosis, he fights to get his driving license back

The man, aged 58, suffers from multiple sclerosis, diagnosed ten years ago. This summer, the administration asked him to undergo a medical check-up in order to keep his driving license, according to information from West France.

Checks were in progress for this resident of Saint-Symphorien until the prefecture of the Deux-Sèvres department suspended his license.

“I feel brutalized and despised,” explains the resident of Deux-Sèvres

The man received a letter from the prefecture in mid-August. “I am told that I must pass a medical check within a month to be able to continue driving,” he explains to our colleagues at Ouest-France. During an appointment with his neurologist a few weeks later, he learned that he would have to be hospitalized for a total of six weeks. The man will be able to benefit from care adapted to his illness.

But a few days before his hospitalization, he received a second letter asking him “to return the original of his driving license within one month” or to contest the suspension of his driving license. It was a “massive blow” for the fifty-year-old who had increased the number of administrative procedures, without a positive response. He explains feeling “brutalized” and “despised”, even though he had obtained authorization from neuropsychologists to drive an automatic vehicle.