Due to poor eyesight, according to the Swedish Transport Agency, Carin Örthagen's driving license was revoked in 2017. Despite several certificates from ophthalmologists who assess that she now, after operations, has good eyesight to drive again, she will not get it back.

In June, she chose to report the Swedish Transport Agency to the Ombudsman, as she believes that the tests according to which the assessments are made must be examined.

The decision from the Ombudsman states that the report does not give rise to any action or statement.

When SVT Nyheter Halland reaches the Ombudsman, they do not want to give any further motivation for the decision.

The tests are judged

According to researchers at VTI, around 2,000 people have their driving licenses revoked each year due to loss of field of vision.

The synthesis tests that the Swedish Transport Agency uses are criticized, and under investigation.

For Carin Örthagen, who has been forced to move from the house in Getinge to the center of Halmstad in order to get to work without a car, it is disappointing.

She planned to move to Australia to try to get her driver's license again, but as a tourist it is difficult.

Now she plans instead to move to Norway and become a citizen there in the hope of being able to get a new trial.

- They have fairer assessments there, she says.

This is what Carin Örthagen said in June when she made the report.

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"I have thought that life is hardly worth living," says Carin Örthagen after the refusal to get her driver's license back.

Photo: Anna Palmgren / SVT