In reply to Hooo:
When I snapped my achilles, I was in one of those plastic boots for 8 months up to just below my knee.
As a stay at home dad and my wife away, there was no way I couldn't be without a car so I told my insurance company, they duly noted it on my records and asked to get a letter from my doc who happily obliged saying there was no reason I couldn't drive an automatic. Luckily I had one so no problems.
Didn't cause any problems at all and I even asked the police who said there weren't/aren't? any direct rules about it. They were happy with the docs letter and insurance say so.
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