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  1. I took my Driving Test in July 1976 - heatwave, 8 months pregnant, so will never forget! Passed! Received Driving Licence (Auto). Have driven for 42 years, 7 owned vehicles, 10-15 Rental vehicles abroad,( codes, IDP etc), and numerous employer’s vehicles. Changes of addresses always notified etc. Always Taxed, Insured. No accidents, incidents or Claims. a Excellent driving record. In 2013 I changed my name legally and moved address. Notified DVLA with relative documentation. Received Driving Licence in new name, new address. Hired car from Hertz in Oct 2017, with DVLA Licence & IDP, at Philadelphia International Airport. I’ve done this every Oct for 8 years. No problem. Travel documents left with relatives in London on our return. Totally unrelated issues in 2018 led to confrontation with local PC who had failed to investigate Complaints. I reported him to IOPC on June 3rd 2018.a On June 5th he pulled up, sirens and blue lights, next to my stationary parked car. He claimed he had earlier observed me driving through the village without wearing a seatbelt! As he checked out my Insurance, Tax etc I remained in my car feeling pretty smug! However, his checks with the DVLA came back - I am totally unknown to them! In both my previous and current names. I was arrested, taken into custody, had my car seized, was detained for 7 hours before being released without charge. Unable to travel the 240 miles back to London to obtain my documentation, I concentrated on reclaiming my car.(£190). I contacted the DVLA who stated they had absolutely NEVER had any record of me or my previous Driving Licences, notifications etc etc. ZERO! I contacted Hertz in Philli who helpfully emailed their retained Rental Agreement from Oct 2017!! Along with my Licence details and IDP! I forwarded onto Police and DVLA. The DVLA contacted me to say they could not accept the documentation as proof of Licence as they, the DVLA, still had no corresponding Licence details on record. The Police didn’t respond at all. The DVLA suggested I get ‘back on the database’ by applying immediately a Provisional Driving Licence, and re-take the Driving Test(s) asap. I received a Provisional Driving Licence 2 days later. I booked the Theory Test. Passed!(100% on the Question part and 58/75 on the Hazard Awareness Part). I booked my Practical for 4th Sept. I travelled to London to try to retrieve my documentation and Licence from last year. Unfortunately, the elderly relative with whom I had been staying with last year, was moved into Residential Care in June 2018. Those who assisted her move helped me go the boxes and bags in her Care Home. To no avail. Yesterday I received a Notice of Summons to appear at the local Magistrayes Court ( where ironically I often work!) on charges for Driving without a Licence, No Insurance, furnishing false information to obtain Insurance. I contacted the DVLA again yesterday. While acknowledging that a ‘tiny minority of Drivers details may disappear’, even if the documentary details provided by Hertz indicate that my renewed Driving Licence (2013) actually EXPIRED in April 2018!!! Kafkaesque!! I’ve absorbed this today. With 240 miles separating me from elderly relatives with dementia, the death of one of them in May, Driving every week since January every from my home to their home in London to assist them etc., 2 family bereavements, loss of my grandson (14) in France in April and trying to hang onto my employment 75 miles drive per day - I had not given any thought whatsoever to my Driving Licence expiry. In fact, I had had it re-issued in my new name in April 2013 thinking it was for 10 years. That assumption was wrong as the DVLA confirmed yesterday that if they had renewed my 2008 issued Licence after my name change in 2013, they would not have issued a 10 yr Licence! As confirmed by the ruddy Hertz documentation, my Licence was only issued with the remaining 5 years to expiry!!! I’m unable to work now having Sorned my car. I’m 67. I’ve never had ANY driving offences or problems. I drive 15,000 - 20,000 miles a year in the U.K. I’m looking at receiving a huge fine, six points on my eventual Licence, and a possible ban!!! How has this happened? Anyone else out there with this kind of problem with the DVLA? I’ve never had a Driving Lesson in my life and, as a lifelong driver with care and consideration, both here and abroad, I had no problem passing the (new) Theory Test. I have no worries about the Practical Test in 3 week’s time. But the stress, expense and sheer frustration of this nightmare I fear is not a situation that is not unique? Advice pls from anyone with similar, or simply supportive advice. Thanks! When I trave
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