Police doing a concentrated enforcement on roadside eyesight tests till Nov 8th.

[wakemalcolm]

I did the same and, although we were in a long room, she said sorry I don't have Ford Cortina parked at the end of the room.

Did she escort you off the premises?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

According to reports many are doing so without realising thier sight had got progressively worse.
Dont you think we all need to be aware?

Nope, there is no need to be aware police are doing extra random eyesight tests. I disagree that people are unaware their eyesight is not up to scratch. They just think they can get away with it, whilst increasing danger to others if they continue to drive.

If you are driving with uncorrected defective vision; you deserve to face the consequences of getting stopped by a random police check.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I've never been stopped by the police in this country, in 28 years of driving. Weirdly last time I had my eye test, they said my prescription had increased slightly but it wasn't worth updating my lenses. I'm still going to get them changed though, if there's a chance of seeing better at distance then I'd like that option

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I did the same and, although we were in a long room, she said sorry I don't have Ford Cortina parked at the end of the room.

So you couldn’t ask her for her number plate then?

 

[gbb]

I do occasionally self test myself as im getting closer to 70. I do sense some eye tiredness occasionally (reading, phone displat etc).but never failed to read a numberplate at 20 yards...so I should be ok

 

[Shadow]

Police doing a concentrated enforcement on roadside eyesight tests till Nov 8th.​

Are they stopping just motorists or also cyclists?!

 

[SteveH80]

Many years back at a post pub party one of my mates tried my glasses on (he didn't wear glasses), and said he could see really well out of them. Slightly terrifying, he'd been the nominated driver and had just brought us all back from the pub 😳

Part of having a driving licence should be a regular eye test; it's cheap enough and not difficult to set up, although I expect DVLA could easily cock it up 🤣

 

[Drago]

And tell me, officer, what are your lawful grounds for requiring me to undergo a roadside eyesight test?

On my driving test the examiner asked me to read the registration of my own motorbike in the car park, which I was happy to pretend to do.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

To me it seems that to read a numberplate at 20m you have to be looking in the right direction ... so those spending much of the time behind a wheel yet looking at Twitter on their phones can't read a number plate at any distance 'cos they are looking in the wrong place. Those same people also won't be seeing oncoming vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians, etc. Same applies to those looking at Facebook on their phones. Same applies to those looking at Tick Tock on their phones, etc.

Maybe one day the Police will get round to addressing this aspect as well?

 

[Drago]

It is possible to have tunnel vision so extreme that you would be classed as clinically blind and still pass the number plate eyesight test.

 

[Dave7]

Police doing a concentrated enforcement on roadside eyesight tests till Nov 8th.​

Are they stopping just motorists or also cyclists?!

Yes, they are stopping cyclists.........


But only if they are driving a car at the time

 

[T4tomo]

And tell me, officer, what are your lawful grounds for requiring me to undergo a roadside eyesight test?

On my driving test the examiner asked me to read the registration of my own motorbike in the car park, which I was happy to pretend to do.

One of my Dad's mates, who's eyesight apparently wasn't the best, got his mate to park a car ~20 yards away from the centre and sure enough that was the test plate to read, which George had little difficulty in recalling it from memory!

 

[mistyoptic]

It is possible to have tunnel vision so extreme that you would be classed as clinically blind and still pass the number plate eyesight test.

True but that would be a notifiable eye condition and you would fail an Estermann field test

 

[Drago]

Indeed. My comment was a reflection on the legal eyesight requirements for a new driver, not the efficacy of various other means of testing for those that might be honest and declare eyesight shortcomings.

After all, we live in a world where self entitled and medically unqualified 70 year olds can declare themselves fit to continue driving. Well, I could declare myself Jennifer Lawrence's personal gigolo, that doesn't mean it's something I really should be doing.

 

[DRM]

Did she escort you off the premises?

Probably, I bet there was a lot of Corsair