Types of California DMV Cases

California DMV Cases The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) may commence an investigation and suspend, revoke, reexamine or impose probation upon a person’s California driver license or privilege to drive in California under several circumstances. These circumstances include driver's license suspensions based upon age (termed lack of skill), medical condition (such as diabetes, or epilepsy), isolated medical event (reported loss of consciousness by a physician, paramedic, California Highway Patrol officer, county deputy sheriff or local police officer), or excess DMV points (termed negligent operator suspension resulting from California Vehicle Code violations, accidents, or a combination of both California Vehicle Code violations and accidents).

Additionally, the DMV may initiate an investigation to determine whether the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle should be suspended, revoked or whether probation should be imposed upon receiving information that the licensee has been involved as a driver in any accident causing death, personal injury, property damage, involvement in three or more accidents within 12 months, or upon receiving information that the licensee is a reckless, negligtent, or incompetent driver. Furthermore, the DMV may require the reexamination of California driver.

However, Notice must be provide before the DMV may suspend, revoke, reexamine, or impose conditions of probation on the license or privilege of a California driver. The Notice must contain the basis for the proposed action and triggers the right of a California driver to a DMV hearing. Ordinarily, the DMV hearing must occur before the driver license action is taken. In some cases, the California DMV may immediately suspend the driver license if the DMV Driver Safety Office believe the mental or physical condition of the driver poses a threat to the safety of the public.

As well, if a person with a California driver license has been arrested in California or any other state for driving under the influence of alcohol, medication or drugs (DUI), the California driver license is at risk of being suspended. Similarly, if a person holds a driver's license from a state other than California and they were arrested in California for DUI, that person's privilege to drive in California is at risk of being suspended.

Additionally, pursuant to an interstate compact between almost every state, the California Department of Motor Vehicles will notify the out of state agency which issued a driver's license to a person who has an action imposed against that person's privilege to drive in California. Such a notification will usually trigger a separate action being initiated by the agency which issued the out of state driver's license.

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