The fact that it is your wife's Yaris hybrid suggests she has a licence, so why can't she drive?. As for the camping trip, is it just you and your wife?, if so, surely you can fit everything in with seats folded and careful packing?. Otherwise, could you look into hiring a roof box?, or could some of the other members of this large camping party not take some of your stuff too?.

Hiring an auto van?, possible but unlikely, and if you could find one, it would probably cost more than renting an auto estate car.

Why can't the OP drive an automatic with a bad foot? If disabled drivers (some with only one leg) can get round the problem why can't he? Obviously I refer to an auto. but given that both my cars are auto. I reckon I've a good idea how easy (or otherwise) it would be to tuck the left foot out of the way and carry on as normal .... it's what I do allthe time.

And as an afterthought, why the need to get the insurers involved? Where would you draw the line ..... Dear Insurance Company. I 've bruised my toe - can I carry on driving? Dear Insurance Company, I've got a tiny fracture in my ankle, can I carry on driving?

I reckon there would be plenty Insurers who would treat is as an excuse to up your premium due to " a change in circumstance".

If it was the right foot, then that's different in my book. If your head fell off, then that's different. but a temporary injury to the left foot whilst driving an automatic ...... well, I rest my case m'lud.

Edited by KB. on 04/08/2019 at 19:24

Why can't the OP drive an automatic with a bad foot? If disabled drivers (some with only one leg) can get round the problem why can't he?

The OP is not asking about driving with a 'bad foot', he is asking about driving with a broken bone in his foot. And it is quite a leap to compare that to driving with a stubbed toe!.

I don't believe anyone is saying he can't drive with a broken foot, just that, for obvious reasons, he shouldn't.

After three weeks healing should be well under way and it won't be particularly painful any more. Clutch pedals in cars are very light these days. I would make a splinted driving shoe for the left foot by cutting out a plywood 'sole' shape, lightly glue it to the sole of a sandal and strap it to the presumably bandaged foot with a 4" crepe bandage.

Edited by John F on 05/08/2019 at 09:22

The OP is not asking about driving with a 'bad foot', he is asking about driving with a broken bone in his foot. And it is quite a leap to compare that to driving with a stubbed toe!.

I don't believe anyone is saying he can't drive with a broken foot, just that, for obvious reasons, he shouldn't.

I disagree. The OP DOES have a bad foot. It has a broken bone within it. A matter of semantics, I feel.

And you've chosen to overlook the manner in which I used the bruised toe analogy.... I said, in connection with notification to the insurer, that it was a matter of degree ... a bruised toe at one end of the scale and a Heipelvectomy at the other. In the case of the former, then notifying the insurer is rather unnecessary wheras the latter is an instance where the insurer would likely want to know.

And I still don't see why the OP "shouldn't" drive an auto with a bad left foot.

Edited by KB. on 05/08/2019 at 14:31