My question involves a driver's license issued by the State of: WI
So back on Jan. 27 my mother got stopped by a cop as she was on her way up to the grocery store at 11AM. The store is no more than 3 miles away and she was not quite halfway there when the cop stopped her. She was apparently deviating out of her lane. Well first off she was in the left-hand lane and freaked out when she saw the lights behind her. Having never been stopped before she just sort of froze and didn't pull off to the right-hand side and just stayed put in the left-hand lane. The cop apparently tried to wave her to the right side but she said she didn't see him do that. Then he came to the passenger side window and asked her to roll it down. Well she was so flustered that she couldn't figure out which button put the window down. I should mention that she has issues with this when she's a passenger--she'll pull the button rather than push it or hit the locks button rather than the window button. She is very challenged when it comes to technology. So the cop had her open the door so he could put it down. He asked her where she was going and if she was confused and gave her a written warning but also told her she'd be getting a letter in the mail from the DMV. She’s a very capable person—mows her own yard, cleans out her own gutters, shovels her own snow. She looks 10 years younger than what she is.
Well about a week later she gets the letter saying she needs to go in and be evaluated by a doctor and then a possible reexamination at the DMV to keep her license. She goes in on Feb. 8 and explains what happened and the doctor asked her when the last time she had a road test was and she said never (just learned to drive on the farm). He said she should probably have one and she pleaded with him not to make her take one. He succumbed and marked her as fine and not needing to be tested. She sends in the paperwork thinking everything is good and she won’t have to worry about it.
Well on Feb 22 she gets a notice from the DMV that she has to come in anyways and take the knowledge and signs test and if she passes that, sign up for a road test. She can take the written test up to 5 times if she doesn’t pass it. Well she goes in on March 3 and takes the test and passes the first time. They make an appt for her to do the road test then on March 13, but she cancels that due to a snow storm on that day. She then gets her appt rescheduled for March 20 (yesterday). They told her to bring someone with her because if she fails she won’t be able to drive home. Well she didn’t bring anyone with her since she’d have to ask a neighbor (which she probably didn’t want to do), but she also failed. She couldn’t get more than 25 points off and she got 29. Well from what I’d heard that if you fail, that’s it, no more chances and your license is taken from you. Well this guy told her she could try again and they’d even come to her house and she could drive in that area (which is what she wanted to do all along but they said they didn’t do that). Plus then she’d be restricted to that area. She said she’d try again at the DMV and they made an appt for her for April 10 and they let her keep her license and drive home no problem.
So what I’m getting at that I find so hilarious is that she got this notice from the cop because he thought she wasn’t fit to drive due to her seeming confused, yet here it is nearly 8 weeks later and she’s still driving and the DMV seems to have no issue with it. I mean she may have had to drive to the DMV 5 separate times if she failed the written test (since you can only do it once a day) and then come back for the road test. Gee, we really want to keep those dangerous drivers off the road! Then they let her keep her license during all this time while waiting to road test (she probably could have cancelled several times and they’d just reschedule her—could have been months out if she really wanted to prolong it) and then she even fails her test and they let her keep her license, drive home, and schedule her to try again 3 weeks later. At that point it will be nearly 3 months since the incident occurred. Why do they let her keep her license and drive then if they are so concerned with her driving? You’d think the thing to do would be to tell her she can’t drive until she passes her road test. Then if she fails next time are they going to take it away and tell her “Nope, I mean we’ve been letting you drive all this time, even when you failed the first time, but you can’t even drive your car back home now and you’ll have to call a cab”. I think that's absolutely ridiculous.
So back on Jan. 27 my mother got stopped by a cop as she was on her way up to the grocery store at 11AM. The store is no more than 3 miles away and she was not quite halfway there when the cop stopped her. She was apparently deviating out of her lane. Well first off she was in the left-hand lane and freaked out when she saw the lights behind her. Having never been stopped before she just sort of froze and didn't pull off to the right-hand side and just stayed put in the left-hand lane. The cop apparently tried to wave her to the right side but she said she didn't see him do that. Then he came to the passenger side window and asked her to roll it down. Well she was so flustered that she couldn't figure out which button put the window down. I should mention that she has issues with this when she's a passenger--she'll pull the button rather than push it or hit the locks button rather than the window button. She is very challenged when it comes to technology. So the cop had her open the door so he could put it down. He asked her where she was going and if she was confused and gave her a written warning but also told her she'd be getting a letter in the mail from the DMV. She’s a very capable person—mows her own yard, cleans out her own gutters, shovels her own snow. She looks 10 years younger than what she is.
Well about a week later she gets the letter saying she needs to go in and be evaluated by a doctor and then a possible reexamination at the DMV to keep her license. She goes in on Feb. 8 and explains what happened and the doctor asked her when the last time she had a road test was and she said never (just learned to drive on the farm). He said she should probably have one and she pleaded with him not to make her take one. He succumbed and marked her as fine and not needing to be tested. She sends in the paperwork thinking everything is good and she won’t have to worry about it.
Well on Feb 22 she gets a notice from the DMV that she has to come in anyways and take the knowledge and signs test and if she passes that, sign up for a road test. She can take the written test up to 5 times if she doesn’t pass it. Well she goes in on March 3 and takes the test and passes the first time. They make an appt for her to do the road test then on March 13, but she cancels that due to a snow storm on that day. She then gets her appt rescheduled for March 20 (yesterday). They told her to bring someone with her because if she fails she won’t be able to drive home. Well she didn’t bring anyone with her since she’d have to ask a neighbor (which she probably didn’t want to do), but she also failed. She couldn’t get more than 25 points off and she got 29. Well from what I’d heard that if you fail, that’s it, no more chances and your license is taken from you. Well this guy told her she could try again and they’d even come to her house and she could drive in that area (which is what she wanted to do all along but they said they didn’t do that). Plus then she’d be restricted to that area. She said she’d try again at the DMV and they made an appt for her for April 10 and they let her keep her license and drive home no problem.
So what I’m getting at that I find so hilarious is that she got this notice from the cop because he thought she wasn’t fit to drive due to her seeming confused, yet here it is nearly 8 weeks later and she’s still driving and the DMV seems to have no issue with it. I mean she may have had to drive to the DMV 5 separate times if she failed the written test (since you can only do it once a day) and then come back for the road test. Gee, we really want to keep those dangerous drivers off the road! Then they let her keep her license during all this time while waiting to road test (she probably could have cancelled several times and they’d just reschedule her—could have been months out if she really wanted to prolong it) and then she even fails her test and they let her keep her license, drive home, and schedule her to try again 3 weeks later. At that point it will be nearly 3 months since the incident occurred. Why do they let her keep her license and drive then if they are so concerned with her driving? You’d think the thing to do would be to tell her she can’t drive until she passes her road test. Then if she fails next time are they going to take it away and tell her “Nope, I mean we’ve been letting you drive all this time, even when you failed the first time, but you can’t even drive your car back home now and you’ll have to call a cab”. I think that's absolutely ridiculous.
Driver's License Issues: My Mother Had to Have a DMV Reexamination
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