Will accept information from courts, law enforcement agencies, hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, family, and friends. The physician must agree to be a source of information and allow the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to divulge this information to the driver.Ī letter is sent requiring the driver to submit a medical statement and/or take a driver’s license examination. Ohio will accept and act on information submitted by a physician regarding an unsafe driver. Clients may renew by mail only if they are out of state. Vision testing required at time of renewal? Yes, if client has 20/70 acuity through telescope and 20/200 acuity through carrier lens. Persons with certain medical or physical conditions may be required to furnish periodic medical statements or take periodic driver’s license examinations. There are various restrictions, including daytime driving only for persons with vision in both eyes who have a visual acuity between 20/50 and 20/70 daytime driving only for persons with vision in one eye only who have a visual acuity between 20/40 and 20/60 right or left outside mirror required for persons who are blind in one eye but have 70˚ temporal and 45˚ nasal peripheral vision in the other eye. If one eye blindother with/without correction Physician's Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Drivers-Ohio Ohio
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