Parent Surrendering License

[Anonymous]

I think my question is pretty straight forward, however I'm not able to find my answer on the MD DMV website.

My mom is having to surrender her license due to an accident she had (no one was hurt and it was single car). I know she needs to do this by going to the DMV office, however does she need an appointment to do this? In looking at their website where there are several options for the type of appointment you might need, none of them list "surrendering license" as one of the services offered on the appointment scheduling function of the website. How does this work? Also can she do this at the express office or does she have to go to the full service office in G'Burg or Glen Burnie?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Who told her she needs to surrender it? Has she had a medical competency review?

[Anonymous]

Not the same thing, but it took 10 seconds to surrender car tags (from totaled car) at the express DMV office, no appointment. In your case I would try the express office and hope it is similarly easy.

[Anonymous]

In MD an officer can request a medical review if they think someone shouldn’t be driving. It’s rare this happens though because it’s a lot of paperwork. Is this what happened? Assuming it is and the r medical review determined she shouldn’t drive, the mva will have been notified already. Her lic will show as ID only in the database. She can mail in the physical license without going in.

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone. She is 79 has no violations on her record. She had a single car accident last week, but she was not hurt. Yesterday she received a letter from the DMV that she was to surrender her license "for medical reasons" which we thought was strange as she did not have a medical incidence (she's not frail, and is very active). The police were called to the scene because a neighbor saw the accident happen and thought she might need help. My sister took her to the ER just to make sure she was okay, all tests were done including bloodwork and labs and she got a clean bill of health and was released.

We think it must be the MoCo police who started the ball rolling with getting her license suspended, not sure. According to her paperwork she has to get a physical and eye exam but not sure what else. They also didn't indicate how long her license would be suspended.

She's not happy about it but is also not putting up a fight -she's a rule follower.

[Anonymous]

Something doesn’t sound right op. Are you sure you have the whole story correct? What kind of accident and what caused it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone. She is 79 has no violations on her record. She had a single car accident last week, but she was not hurt. Yesterday she received a letter from the DMV that she was to surrender her license "for medical reasons" which we thought was strange as she did not have a medical incidence (she's not frail, and is very active). The police were called to the scene because a neighbor saw the accident happen and thought she might need help. My sister took her to the ER just to make sure she was okay, all tests were done including bloodwork and labs and she got a clean bill of health and was released.

We think it must be the MoCo police who started the ball rolling with getting her license suspended, not sure. According to her paperwork she has to get a physical and eye exam but not sure what else. They also didn't indicate how long her license would be suspended.

She's not happy about it but is also not putting up a fight -she's a rule follower.

Your reflexes change as you age. One of my close friends heard from family mom was in an accident and it was the other driver's fault. Took the insurance investigation for her to find out in reality it was mom's fault-she was lying. The officer or whoever did the right thing. She should be evaluated before getting her license back. One of my doctors had a serious accident with an 80 year old woman with a perfect record. Things decline fast. The woman was 100% at fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something doesn’t sound right op. Are you sure you have the whole story correct? What kind of accident and what caused it?

I believe I have the whole story. She mentioned that the tires started "wobbling" and she was afraid that she was going to lose control of the car and hit an oncoming car, so drove her car into a patch of tall bushes on the side of the road. This was inside her neighborhood, small rural area.

[Anonymous]

If she gives back her physical license make sure she gets a state issued ID card in its place. She may still need ID on occasion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone. She is 79 has no violations on her record. She had a single car accident last week, but she was not hurt. Yesterday she received a letter from the DMV that she was to surrender her license "for medical reasons" which we thought was strange as she did not have a medical incidence (she's not frail, and is very active). The police were called to the scene because a neighbor saw the accident happen and thought she might need help. My sister took her to the ER just to make sure she was okay, all tests were done including bloodwork and labs and she got a clean bill of health and was released.

We think it must be the MoCo police who started the ball rolling with getting her license suspended, not sure. According to her paperwork she has to get a physical and eye exam but not sure what else. They also didn't indicate how long her license would be suspended.

She's not happy about it but is also not putting up a fight -she's a rule follower.

Your reflexes change as you age. One of my close friends heard from family mom was in an accident and it was the other driver's fault. Took the insurance investigation for her to find out in reality it was mom's fault-she was lying. The officer or whoever did the right thing. She should be evaluated before getting her license back. One of my doctors had a serious accident with an 80 year old woman with a perfect record. Things decline fast. The woman was 100% at fault.

She has no issue with being evaluated. And perhaps the officer did do the right thing, we'll see. I'm not trying to debate that and did not even indicate that I was debating it. I was simply asking what the process was to surrender.

[Anonymous]

I would just call the DMV in the morning and ask. Maybe you can just mail it in with a copy of the letter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she gives back her physical license make sure she gets a state issued ID card in its place. She may still need ID on occasion.

Thank you - I didn't even think of that.

[Anonymous]

Can police make her give up license because of one accident without medical evaluation first?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can police make her give up license because of one accident without medical evaluation first?

Well that's what we're wondering too. I do know for a fact that she does not have any violations on her record so we felt this was a little out of left field but maybe it's not due to her age. We're all new to this, but we're complying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can police make her give up license because of one accident without medical evaluation first?

Well that's what we're wondering too. I do know for a fact that she does not have any violations on her record so we felt this was a little out of left field but maybe it's not due to her age. We're all new to this, but we're complying.

I’d investigate little more before giving up her license. It’s a big (negative) milestone that may affect her pretty hard. The whole thing doesn’t sound right to me. Good luck to your mom.