What the 3-year Ontario driver record shows, and what it leaves out

The 3-year Ontario driver record shows your driver identification details, your current demerit point total, active fine suspensions, and Highway Traffic Act and Criminal Code of Canada convictions, suspensions and reinstatements from the past three years. ServiceOntario states that it does not include your address, your Ontario beginner driver education course completion, or expired medical suspensions.

What is on it

ServiceOntario and form SR-LC-112 describe the same record in slightly different words, and between them the list is: driver identification details, overall licence status, the earliest licence date the ministry holds, the licence expiry date, a medical due date for controlled classes, the current demerit point total, active fine suspensions, and Highway Traffic Act and Criminal Code of Canada convictions, suspensions and reinstatements over the past three years.

"Convictions" is the operative word. A charge that was withdrawn, or one you are still fighting in court, is not a conviction and does not appear. A conviction appears once the court registers it with the ministry, which is why a ticket you paid months ago can show up later than you expect.

What is not on it, and why each omission matters

No address. ServiceOntario lists this under "Does not include", and it is the single most consequential omission: the version of the record that does carry an address is a different product, and the ministry restricts it to the driver themselves or to an authorised requestor under signed contract. If someone has asked you for a record showing your address, this is not it.

No Ontario beginner driver education course completion. That sits on the Driver Licence History instead, which is restricted to the driver, law enforcement and certain government bodies.

No expired medical suspensions. A medical suspension that has ended does not appear on the 3-year record.

The three-year window is not the same for everything

The 3-year record covers three years of both Highway Traffic Act and Criminal Code convictions. The 5-year record does not simply extend that: form SR-LC-112 describes it as three years of Highway Traffic Act convictions and five years of Criminal Code convictions. The two statutes are on different clocks, and a document that says "5 year" does not mean five years of everything.

Demerit points run on a third clock again. They come off two years from the offence date, not from the conviction date, so points can disappear while the conviction that produced them is still listed.

Collisions

The 3-year record's published description does not list collisions. Form SR-LC-112 mentions collisions only in its description of the Freedom of Information Driver Record Search, which reports "all suspensions, reinstatements and collisions for as far back as available" and is restricted to the driver, a Crown Attorney's office, or law enforcement with a court order.

We are not going to state flatly that no collision ever appears on a 3-year record, because the ministry does not say that in those words. What it does say is what the record contains, and collisions are not in that list.

Common questions

Does the 3-year record show demerit points?

Yes. ServiceOntario lists the demerit point total among the record's contents. Points fall off two years from the offence date, so the total on the record reflects only points that are still live.

Will a withdrawn charge appear?

No. The record lists convictions, suspensions and reinstatements. A charge that did not result in a conviction is not a conviction.

Does it show convictions from other provinces?

Ontario's published description covers Highway Traffic Act and Criminal Code of Canada convictions on the ministry's record. How and when another jurisdiction's conviction reaches that record is not something the ministry sets out on these pages, so we do not describe it.

What we could not confirm

These are things this page would have liked to tell you and could not find on a Ministry of Transportation or ServiceOntario page. Rather than guess, they are listed.

  • Whether a collision ever appears on the 3-year record. The ministry lists collisions only in its description of the Freedom of Information record, and does not state either way for the 3-year one.
  • How out-of-province convictions reach an Ontario record, and on what timescale. Not published on either ServiceOntario page.

Sources

Everything on this page is checked against a page published by the Government of Ontario or the Ministry of Transportation. Nothing is taken from another commercial site.

Checked 2026-09-04.

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This is a guide, not a sales page, which is why there is no price on it. If you do want us to order the record for you, that is what we do — and you can equally order it from ServiceOntario (Ministry of Transportation) yourself.