title: [Driving licenses and medical fitness].
abstract: The Highway Code requires that any vehicle driver is constantly in a state and in position of performing easily and without delay all the maneuvers required of them. What about a vehicle driver suffering from a medical condition that does not allow it to meet the requirements of the Highway Code? While it may seem obvious that some diseases irrefutably presumed inability to drive, the regulatory authority had to answer a number of questions. What people should be subject to medical control of driving ability? What constitutes control? Who may be responsible for this control? The government, through a decree dated 17 July 2012 relating to medical control of driving ability, came to ask a new legal framework in this area meets all of these issues. In addition, a decree of 31 July 2012 came to specify the implementation rules for monitoring medical fitness to drive.
authors.affiliation: CHU d'Amiens, service de médecine légale et sociale, 80054 Amiens, France.
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sénéchal
authors.affiliation: CHU d'Amiens, service de médecine légale et sociale, 80054 Amiens, France. Electronic address: manaouil.cecile@chu-amiens.fr.
authors.forename: Cécile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Manaouil
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008004:Licensure / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*