Drivers with uncomplicated diabetes and whose treatment does not generate a risk of hypoglycaemia will no longer be obliged to pass a medical check beforehand to drive cars and two-wheelers. People with severe locomotor disabilities and of profound hearing loss They will now be able to drive heavy goods vehicles and public transport vehicles, following an examination validated by an approved doctor and a driving license inspector.
The decree also lifts bans on driving light vehicles for people with certain severe locomotor handicaps. It also clarifies when a person with the diseaseAlzheimer and of neuroevolutionary diseases relatives can no longer drive.
While the previous decree set the limit at the time when the person is suffering from “documented dementia”that of March 28 specifies that there is definitive incompatibility with the conduite “from the beginning of stage 3 of the Reisberg scale”which measures disease progression.
“A radical cleaver”
“This is when friends, family and colleagues start noticing certain memory or concentration problems. In practice, for driving, the person no longer pays attention to certain red lights, for example,” explains Road Safety. “For the person to stop driving at the right time, the people around must be able to “organize things “. The decree clarifies this point, the dementia mentioned in the previous text being a vague notion.
Benoît Durand, director general of France Alzheimer, tip of AFP “a radical cleaver”. “The text says that, from the onset of cognitive decline and in particular pathological decline of the Alzheimer’s type, there is a total ban on driving, but who is going to decide? », he asks.
“Often for a diagnosis, you need an appointment with the neurologist, which in some regions, is not obtained before delays of twelve to eighteen months”continues Benoît Durand, “What’s going on in the meantime? » According to Road Safety, the decision will be taken by doctors approved by the prefectures for medical fitness to drive.
