THE Navarra Diabetes Association (ANADI) denounces the “stigmatization” of this disease after a diabetic person was judged for having caused a accident in Zizur after suffering hypoglycemia while driving, “impairing the fact that Being diabetic and driving is a serious imprudent act“.
The Association reminds that you can currently take a normalized life with diabetesstressing that “training on the disease and its periodic monitoring allow any citizen authorized to do so to drive.”
In this sense, Juantxo Remón (President of the Association)reports that diabetics renew their driving licenses every 5 years and are required to declare the disease during medical visits, since a favorable medical report is required if the person is undergoing treatment.
He adds that this is only in exceptional cases enough symptoms of hypoglycemia Above all, they can happen so quickly that they can cause you to lose control of the vehicle and expose you to risky situations.
For this reason, “for the defense to accuse the diabetic person of serious imprudence for having driven while suffering from this disease is to put on the same level an unchosen but controllable disease such as diabetes with a voluntary and risky act such as driving drunk”, which means “stigmatize the disease” and “projects a negative image of people who suffer from it.”
Likewise, they add from the Association, these types of messages call into question the traffic service for having granted authorization to this person. after passing the corresponding tests“.
The Association emphasizes “anger and indignation” which provokes this type of message from the associated people and hopes that during the trial the person will not be judged for having committed any imprudence due to the fact of suffering from diabetes.
The trial takes place this Friday before the Criminal Court of Pamplona after this person lost control of his car and crashed into another vehicle.
He Ministry of Finance requests acquittal, alleging that the accused suffered from hypoglycemia which impaired her faculties, while the private prosecutor representing the seriously injured user of another vehicle claims a 2-year prison sentence for the offence of reckless driving and 1 year in prison for the offence of causing serious injury through recklessness. To this end, she states that “in a reckless manner and aware of his limitations as a diabetic and the problems that arise from this, he took control of the steering wheel of a vehiclecausing a very serious accident.
