“Lifetime” driving license without medical check-up: will France remain an exception?

2023-07-16 07:12:06

With each fatal road accident involving an elderly driver, the debate on the license for life is revived. The indictment of an octogenarian in Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine), suspected of having killed two pedestrians at the wheel of his 4 x 4 in the space of three months, again raises the question: should- it provide a better time frame for the right to drive with compulsory medical checks that are increasingly frequent as you get older? This is what French wheelchair tennis champion Pauline Déroulède, who had her left leg amputated in 2018 after being mowed down by a 90-year-old driver, advocates.