A physician’s decision to question a person’s physical or mental competency can be enough for both a trial court and the state Department of Transportation to require an on-road driving test as a condition of restoring a person’s license, a Commonwealth Court panel has ruled.
Writing that a medical opinion indicating a person may be incompetent to drive is of “paramount importance” to public safety, a 2-1 majority held the burden to re-establish competency shifts to the licensee in such cases.
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