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Hmmmm.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-36381653
I mean, it's possible, but you'd have thought they might have decided to lead some medical evidence (which they may have done and it just hasn't been reported).
But it really sounds like the old 'sun was in my eyes' excuse...
To be fair, sneezing while driving can be a bit scary.
Sounds much more likely that he was dozing though.
Oh absolutely, I hate feeling a sneeze come on and there's no way I can stop (either sneezing or driving). But that they go on to say that he can remember sneezing and then nothing after that, they're suggesting he passed out, or had some sort of 'episde' brought on by the sneezing, but don't appear to have lead medical evidence on if that's possible, or what any condition might have been. Very strange.
Yeah - I suppose if he's not contesting the charge it doesn't really matter though, except as mitigation.
Yes as a hayfever sufferer I can have several sneezes one after the other. It is nigh impossible to keep your eyes open does that mean I shouldn't drive during pollen season? It's not my fault the plants are getting freaky with one another... I won't mention what the newsthump website calls it...
In other news I got stung by a wasp (that had smacked off my helmet and dropped down the really small what-are-the-chances-of-that hole in the top) on the Trinity to Roseburn path, and in frantic attempt to get the straps undone (with right hand because I am right handed after all) I reactively pulled on the brakes with the left hand and went over the handlebars to add insult and further injury to the injury.
And still stinging and in pain finishing the ride another wasp got caught in helmet straps after the Roseburn bridge. THAT was got jumped on with extreme prejudice.
Helmets - causing accidents with wasps... The replacement helmet had the webbing in the gaps oh yes...
Okay, clearly I made the same mistake as the headline in the news article.
His defence is not that he sneezed and sneezed and sneezed and couldn't keep his eyes open. But rather that he sneezed, then can't remember anything afterwards, so the sneeze caused him to black out.
Though I would say that if someone suffered so badly from hayfever that, say, they couldn't go 5 minutes without a sneezing fit that caused them to not be in total control of their car, then yes, they shouldn't drive. If the hayfever is controllable, a sneezing fit happens every so often, but can be lessened by using antihistamines and the like, then that's something totally different again.
So many shades of grey.
I read it (somewhat between the lines) as "I wasn't sleeping, certainly not, I remember sneezing". In any regard, he's off the road for 2 years and hopefully won't be getting his HGV license back.
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