Can you drive in a wrist plaster cast?

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That’s it really, broken wrist and a cast, automatic car. Can you drive in one? If you feel okay to do so, is it legal/invalidate insurance? DVLA just says don’t need to notify them of temporary things.

YABU - No you can’t drive
YANBU - Yes you can drive in a cast.

What does your insurance say? Some allow it if your 100% in control of the car at all times, others have a prohibition clause

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if you can't have both hands on the steering wheel for the duration of the journey and can't make emergency maneuvres then you must not drive.

Pretty sure it’s not legal. You’d need to phone for insurance company to check.

Which side are your indicators on?

Will phone insurance. If the option is to have a splint over a cast then I guess that would be legal and choosing not to have a cast would mean still driving.

Good point about the indicators

My policy when I had first c section said 6 weeks no driving

Second policy said when I felt fit to drive so that was about 10 days

I think a wrist I would feel really nervous to drive in does it go up to your elbow

Do you have one of those casts that's bent over to the end of your fingers? If so, you can't properly hold the steering wheel with it so therefore you're not in full control of the car and won't be insured.

No.

M DH was told it invalidated his insurance on work vehicle so had to have another colleague to drive him around until his wrist healed. Not sure if it's the same in your own car.

I'm having an op on my thumb next week, cast will be from the base of my fingers to the elbow ish. I've been told I can't drive for 4weeks as it will be invalid under insurance as I can't grip.

I broke my left wrist this year and have an automatic - I drove when I felt I was safe. I couldn't do it in a cast because I couldn't get the car into reverse quickly enough if I'd needed to and couldn't pull the hand brake up without reaching over myself to press the button. It might have been easier if it was my right hand, but I didn't have good enough grip strength to hold the wheel until my cast was off, so it probably wouldn't have made much difference.

Is it your wrist? Which one? How long ago was the break?

I know someone who's hurt their wrist. No cast just a splint? Bandage type thing. They were told they couldn't drive. Even an automatic. Can't use two hands, can't do it.

I couldn't as we've got a twisty dial on the automatic and I couldn't twist it with the broken wrist in either a cast or a splint.

I remember not being able to drive when I broke 3 fingers on my hand

Blimey. I had a cast on my hand and wrist a couple of years ago and I was still able to drive an automatic. I even asked the hospital at the time if it was ok and they said as long as I felt comfortable then it was fine.

I broke my elbow recently, no cast.
Was basically told by the doctor that until he’d signed me off I wasn’t insured to drive.
What if you had to do emergency manoeuvres?
I’m fairly sure it’s not safe.

I broke my wrist and need surgery where they pinned it in place and then gave me a splint. I was told I could drive when I felt ready which tbh was nearly a month after surgery.

Thanks for all the replies

Nobody on here can say, you need to ask your orthopaedic surgeon and your insurance company.

It depends which wrist, what type of fracture, how bad it is, what sort of cast, what car you drive, pain levels etc.