Fitness to Drive with ADHD

Recently a committee of The Health Council of the Netherlands published an advice concerning professional fitness to drive for people with ADHD.

It is likely that, on average, adults with ADHD are less able drivers (as measured by the number of offences, fines and traffic accidents) than healthy controls. It seems likely that their cognitive limitations are the root cause of the poorer driving ability found in individuals with ADHD. This involves impaired executive functions and, in particular, attention problems, visual inattention, impulsivity, slow information processing, increased susceptibility to distraction, and visual memory problems. It is likely that, in ADHD, the operational control and tactical control needed to drive a car are both impaired.