Police to check driver's eysight

AndyMc.....

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

Did you miss the bit that don't need to tell them anything?

I didn’t and I also saw you have no marker because you’ve never told them.

kmb500

Stoke wrote: »

Rather than actually respond to your ridiculous post, here's a video of Colin Horsfall seconds before he ploughed into a 16 year old girl and killed her.

https://youtu.be/q4zKUNTYmuU

I wonder what mad Colin was thinking when he ploughed up the kerb (at speed) in that video? "Uhhh, I think I hit a pot hole" or maybe he thought it was an overtaking lane? One thing is true: Colin was told his eyesight was bad and he needed to knock it on the head. Colin decided his right to drive was more important than Cassie's right to live.

That's very sad but what has it got to do with this ? My eyesight is a bit blurry when reading things at a distance, why would that mean I would not notice that I'm driving on the pavement?!

DoaM

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

Did you miss the bit that don't need to tell them anything?

You're obviously not used to AndyMc's posting style.

AdrianC

kmb500 wrote: »

AdrianC wrote:

Can you answer this, please, with a clear and straightforward, unambiguous answer - are you suggesting that the number plate test is unreasonably stringent, and that people who do not have the visual acuity to meet it may still have perfectly adequate eyesight for driving?

Yes. Correct.

So what would you suggest as an appropriate minimum eyesight standard, and how can it be easily checked roadside?

kmb500 wrote: »

My eyesight is a bit blurry when reading things at a distance

When did you last have it tested?

why would that mean I would not notice that I'm driving on the pavement?!

Let's consider roads with higher speed limits than urban 30s, shall we...?

60mph is 28 metres per second.
70mph is 32 metres per second.

Yet you're suggesting that you can't think of scenarios where eyesight "blurry" enough to render a number plate illegible at 20 metres - one second at 45mph - might seriously impinge upon hazard perception?

Mrs_Arcanum

DoaM wrote: »

You're obviously not used to AndyMc's posting style.

At least I am not alone.

Stoke

kmb500 wrote: »

That's very sad but what has it got to do with this ? My eyesight is a bit blurry when reading things at a distance, why would that mean I would not notice that I'm driving on the pavement?!

It has everything to do with this. Colin failed an eye test and was told by a police officer to stop driving. In fact, according to the article I read, some policeman spent 2 hours trying to convince him yet arrogant Colin simply wouldn't be told. If that officer had been able to take Colin's license, a 16 year old girl would have continued with her day and we'd not be having this discussion. Her death, as unfortunate as it was, has luckily brought about this change.

When you get caught drink driving, you lose your license. You have an epileptic seizure, you lose your license. When you are unfit to drive YOU SHOULD LOSE YOUR LICENSE!!! I hate to sound cruel, but some geriatric with bad eyesight shouldn't have been on the road to kill that poor girl.

I don't often back the police.... But this is truly excellent news and no doubt measures will be brought in to ensure its not abused by anyone who is a bit dodgy.

Oh ....... and if your eyes are a bit cruddy like you've suggested, please go the opticians..... It might only be a a Ford Fiesta but you're in a killing machine. Glasses might suit you?

onomatopoeia99

AdrianC wrote: »

I didn't know I needed glasses for distance. I knew that the board in school wasn't exactly legible from the back, but how was I meant to know that wasn't normal...?

I stuck my hand up in class when I was six and told the teacher her writing was blurry. :rotfl: Fortnight later I had those wonderful brown horn rim NHS specs of the 1970s.

neilmcl

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

Do you mean New Zealand or somewhere else?

Nothing on the back of my UK licence and I need and wear glasses.

I mean the UK. Have you ever informed the DVLA that you need glasses/contacts for driving?

Ignore the above, just read your later posts.

AdrianC

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

I stuck my hand up in class when I was six and told the teacher her writing was blurry. :rotfl: Fortnight later I had those wonderful brown horn rim NHS specs of the 1970s.

I just assumed it was why the kids at the back mucked about all the time...

neilmcl

I have to agree that the current "test" is a bit crude. I don't see why we don't so what they do in most other countries and perform a proper visual acuity test using an eye chart.