Tractor's driver's license, you have to hear it?Hearing impaired person "does not fit the times"
"Isn't it suitable for the times that people who can't hear a large special license at all?"Yoshihiro Endo (64), a teacher of Miyagi Prefecture Hearing Support School (64) = Shiraishi -shi = questioned the special news room with readers.Part of a car driver's license can now be obtained by installing an auxiliary equipment even for people with heavy hearing impairment, but large special licenses that can drive tractors are still severe conditions.I checked the actual situation.(Kazuhisa Fujisawa)
Regardless of hearing depending on the model
The Road Traffic Law Enforcement Rules is attached to the hearing aid and "the sound of a 90 -dibel (horn) can be heard at a distance of 10 meters" is the passage criterion for the aptitude test for the driver's license.Small motorcycles and small specials in the body have no standards, and people who cannot hear at all can be obtained.
Even if the hearing is less than the standard, there is an exceptional rule and an exception.With the revision of the Road Traffic Law in 2008, a wide mirror (specified subsequent photo mirror) and a hearing -impaired sign that can be confirmed a wide range can be obtained without hearing.Refer to overseas cases, regardless of whether or not the driver's license has heard, activities to encourage people with hearing impaired to participate in society.
At the age of 20, Mr. Endo, who had a hearing impairment, got a normal license with a hearing aid.She has been driving on a daily basis, such as commuting to a workplace in Taihaku -ku, Sendai, with no major accidents or violations.
After retirement, Endo thought, "Let's cultivate the fields inherited from parents and make rice and vegetables."He studied driving operations at Prefectural Agricultural College (Natori City) with the aim of obtaining a large special car (limited agricultural car limited) to drive on public roads in his parents' home.
"Expansion of special application"
Last September, a suitable test before the practical test at the prefectural driver's license center (Izumi -ku, Sendai City).Endo was unable to distinguish the number of horns and duration.It was a hearing aid that was difficult to hear at a high frequency, and the door was opened by ventilation, so he picked up the surrounding noise.
I replaced the hearing aid and made adjustments, and finally got a license by taking the exam.
"This can drive a tractor."I was relieved, but I was wondering.Can a semi -middle type or ordinary special case be applied to large specials?That way, the range of driver's licenses that the hearing impaired can get.
Mr. Endo claims that "blind spots can be covered with back monitors, large mirrors and sensors."
The person in charge of the driver's license center shows a certain understanding, but says, "The larger the car, the larger the blind spot in the mirror.
Endo repeatedly sue:
"The hearing impaired is driving with the nerves concentrated in the eyes. The fact that a large car has a large blind spot is 50 years ago, 50 years ago, when the license of the hearing impaired was prohibited. does not change"
Students learn about hearing impairment, driver's license, half a century history
Hearing disabled people who want to get a car driver's license have said to win their rights.On January 28 at Miyagi Prefecture Hearing Support School (Taihaku -ku, Sendai City), a junior high school one to three years and 10 people learned the history of hearing impairment and driver's license.
Keiko Hanzawa (73), a lecturer who served as a lecturer, was able to prohibit the driving of the hearing -impaired person when the Road Traffic Control Law was enacted in 1960, and the license was obtained.Explains that cases that can no longer be updated have continued.She said, "She had to repeat the unlicensed driving for work and paid many times," she said.
In 1969 and 1972, he was in charge of an interpreter at a appeal for a man in Morioka City, who was charged with unlicensed driving.Men argued that "it is discrimination that a driver's license cannot be obtained due to hearing impairment," but at that time the aptitude test was not allowed to use the hearing aid and was rejected.
Despite the guilty of the Supreme Court in 1974, the revision of the Road Traffic Law enforcement rules in 1975, the hearing aids could be used at the time of inspection.Mr. Hanzawa said, "The appeal of why the glasses were allowed and why the hearing aids were useless," said the importance of gaining sympathy for exercise.
In 2008, people who could not hear at all could get a normal license, and explained the transition of the system.Students asked questions, "How did you live when you couldn't get a license?"
Rishiro Okuda (13) for two years said, "I am grateful that I have acquired my license thanks to my ancestors.I want. "