Hello all, I'm not sure if you will be able to help me or not, but I figured this would be the best place to ask as all of my research has turned up with nothing. I am in post secondary education for a health care position that involves problem based learning and in a scenario that was presented to my group, the subject of the scenario has a cast on her right foot which will be removed in a few days. She will have another cast on her left foot at a later point in time. Question: What are the legal implications of driving with a cast? Are there any? I looked throughout the MTO and the Ontario highway traffic act and could not find anything. I would really appreciate it if someone could help me out and point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance! Andrew
Hello all,
I'm not sure if you will be able to help me or not, but I figured this would be the best place to ask as all of my research has turned up with nothing.
I am in post secondary education for a health care position that involves problem based learning and in a scenario that was presented to my group, the subject of the scenario has a cast on her right foot which will be removed in a few days. She will have another cast on her left foot at a later point in time.
Question:
What are the legal implications of driving with a cast? Are there any?
I looked throughout the MTO and the Ontario highway traffic act and could not find anything.
I would really appreciate it if someone could help me out and point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance!
I do not know of any law that prevents someone from driving with a cast. This would be up to a doctor to decide. Doctors have the ability to send MTO documentation that a driver is unable to drive due to a condition of some sort. Then the MTO would suspend the drivers licence until reinstated by the doctor. Think more legal issue would be if there was a collision and more so if injury was involved. Was the cast a factor? Might be some civil liability on the driver's part, doctors part. Then you have the insurance companies to deal with in determining the blame, is there a clause in the contract (fine print) about driving while ability was impaired (being a cast that impaired the foot to move properly?)
I do not know of any law that prevents someone from driving with a cast.
This would be up to a doctor to decide. Doctors have the ability to send MTO documentation that a driver is unable to drive due to a condition of some sort. Then the MTO would suspend the drivers licence until reinstated by the doctor.
Think more legal issue would be if there was a collision and more so if injury was involved. Was the cast a factor? Might be some civil liability on the driver's part, doctors part. Then you have the insurance companies to deal with in determining the blame, is there a clause in the contract (fine print) about driving while ability was impaired (being a cast that impaired the foot to move properly?)
Above is merely a suggestion/thought and in no way constitutes legal advice or views of my employer. www.OHTA.ca
Along with your possible insurance troubles, there's also this part of O. Reg 340/94. It would likely depend on the type of cast whether it qualifies as "significantly" interfering with your ability to drive. I once had a walking cast on that still allowed mobility in my ankle (ironically, it was for a fractured ankle) and probably gave more driving "feel" than my work boots do now.
Along with your possible insurance troubles, there's also this part of O. Reg 340/94. It would likely depend on the type of cast whether it qualifies as "significantly" interfering with your ability to drive. I once had a walking cast on that still allowed mobility in my ankle (ironically, it was for a fractured ankle) and probably gave more driving "feel" than my work boots do now.
14. An applicant for or a holder of a drivers licence must not,
(a) suffer from any mental, emotional, nervous or physical disability likely to significantly interfere with his or her ability to drive a motor vehicle of the applicable class safely;
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