Suspension Of Driving Licence Over Sleep Apnoea

[jourdain2]

I'm not sure if this shouldn't be in law.  Any ideas welcome.  My 3-doors-away neighbour (51) is a Marie Curie nurse and works with dying patients within a radius of 26 miles.  She nearly always works  nights in 4-nightly blocks.

She has her own health problems & gets regular hospital check-ups. She was recently tested for Sleep Apnoea (she'd said she was often tired during the day - naturally).  Anyway she scored 9 which is well within normal rang.

She received a letter yesterday from the DVLA suspending her Licence!  I should add that her husband is not particularly strong and so she is the breadwinner, also that we live in a village with just 2 busses a week.  

Devastating for the family - when her car was off the road a week or 2 ago the villagers took it in turns to get her to and from work for a week, but we can't do that permanently.

She intends to appeal and is exploring how to do it, but I think that this has to be a clerical error (given that 9 is in normal range).

Any helpful ideas or comments I can pass on, please?

[jourdain2]

Thing is, Hoppy, that there's no other way of her getting to work anywhere.