These studies have found that people with epilepsy are twice as likely to be involved in a motor vehicle crash compared with the general driving population. Most studies have reported an elevated crash risk among drivers with epilepsy, but the size of the risk varies considerably across the studies. Seizures associated with loss of awareness, even if brief or subtle, or loss of motor control, have the potential to impair the ability to control a motor vehicle. Convulsive (tonic–clonic) seizures may be generalised from onset or have a focal onset. focal motor and focal impaired awareness seizures). absence and focal impaired awareness seizures) or loss of voluntary control of the limbs (e.g. Seizures vary considerably, some being purely subjective experiences – for example, some focal seizures – but most involve some impairment of consciousness (e.g.
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