If you don't let them know, you may be prosecuted
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is warning motorists across the UK that they could be fined £1,000 if they fail to declare whether they have any of more than 200 medical conditions.
The DVLA has also warned that those who fail to declare their condition could be prosecuted if they are involved in an accident, Stoke-on-Trent Live reported.
Millions of drivers are now believed to be using the UK's roads without being honest about their medical conditions.
While some people undoubtedly make a conscious decision not to disclose their health problems, it is believed that many are unaware that they need to declare.
In addition to a long list of health conditions, people with diabetes and cancer must inform the DVLA of their condition if they meet these conditions.
For people with diabetes, if you have been receiving insulin therapy for more than three months, if you had diabetes during pregnancy and lasted for more than three months after delivery, or if you have been warned of hypoglycemia.
For people with cancer or lymphoma, you must tell the DVLA if you develop brain or nervous system problems, your medicines affect your ability to drive or if your condition requires adjustments to your vehicle. In addition, if your doctor advises you not to drive, you must inform the DVLA.
The following is a list of other conditions that require notification to the DVLA:
- agoraphobia
- alcohol problem
- Alzheimer's disease
- amputation
- hemangioma or cavernoma
- ankylosing spondylitis
- anorexia nervosa
- anxiety
- aortic aneurysm
- arachnoid cyst
- Arrhythmia
- arteriovenous malformation
- arthritis
- Ataxia
- ADHD
- AIDS
- Bipolar disorder (manic depression)
- blood clot
- blood pressure
- brachial plexus injury
- Brain abscess, cyst, or encephalitis
- brain aneurysm
- cerebral hemorrhage
- traumatic brain injury
- brain tumor
- mutilation
- Brugada syndrome
- drilling surgery
- cataract
- Cataplexy
- Central vein thrombosis (if you still have problems after one month)
- cerebral palsy
- cognitive issues
- congenital heart disease
- Seizures, seizures or convulsions and driving
- deja vu and driving
- Defibrillator
- Dementia
- Depression (if it affects your ability to drive safely)
- Diplopia (double vision)
- Dizziness or vertigo (if it is sudden, disabling, or recurring)
- Medication
- Empyema (brain)
- Essential tremor (if it affects your ability to drive safely)
- eye condition
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Head injury (serious)
- Heart failure (if it affects your ability to drive safely)
- palpitations
- hemianopia
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Huntington's disease
- hydrocephalus
- Hypoglycemia
- hypoxic brain injury
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Korsakoff syndrome
- Labyrinthitis (if symptoms persist for three months or longer)
- Learning Disability
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Physical disability
- long QT syndrome
- Marfan syndrome
- medulloblastoma
- Meningioma (if it affects your ability to drive safely)
- motor neurone disease
- muscular dystrophy
- myasthenia gravis
- myoclonus
- narcolepsy
- night blindness
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (if it affects your ability to drive safely)
- excessive sleepiness
- Optic atrophy
- pacemaker
- paranoid schizophrenia
- Paraplegia
- Parkinson's Disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- personality disorder
- Pituitary tumor
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (if it affects your ability to drive safely)
- mental illness
- psychotic depression
- pulmonary hypertension
- severe memory problems
- Stroke (if you still have problems after a month)
- Surgery (if you still can't drive after three months)
- Syncope (including fainting or fainting)
- Seizure/epilepsy
- sleep apnea
- schizophrenia affective disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Scotoma
- Severe communication impairment (if it affects your ability to drive safely)
- Spinal disease, injury or spinal surgery
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Tachycardia
- Tourette syndrome (if it affects your ability to drive safely)
- tube perspective
- Usher syndrome
- decreased vision
- Vertigo
- visual field defect
- VP shunt
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
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