Coroner calls for laws forcing doctors to make fitness-to-drive reports

The recommendation follows another road death involving an elderly driver with dementia
Geir O'Rourke
GP Elderly patient

There are renewed calls for more doctors to be forced to make mandatory fitness-to-drive reports after a 92-year-old man diagnosed with moderately severe dementia was involved in a fatal crash after driving for seven hours trying to find his house.

Antonio Pupillo had been given the dementia assessment after scoring 17 out of 30 in a mini-mental state examination during a hospital stay in 2017.