Drivers to have licence revoked immediately if they fail a roadside eye test

Thoughts on this?

Can’t complain, if you can’t see properly you shouldn’t be behind the wheel.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...have-licence-revoked-fail-road-side-eye-test/

 

No problem from me, if you can’t see properly, you are an accident waiting to happen

 

Good number of refs up and down the country shittin' themselves...

 

I wear specs so no worries for me. I have an annual eye test. So would sue the police if they tried that on. I am certain that a qualified optician has a better idea of a persons eye sight ability than some plod on the road side.... This is ridiculous to say the least.

 

Sue them for what? It's the law.

 

Laughing.

It’s the law that you have to be able to read a number plate 20m away. Completely different to opticians assessment of eyesight.

 

That's like saying the police shouldn't breathelyse drivers because they don't work in rehab centres.

 

Why? There must be loads of drivers who’s eyesight isn’t up to it, how would you feel if one of them ran over your kid?

 

Still laugh at that old advert when the ref drives up to the car wash and orders a Big Mac, then you hear the sound of the brushes kicking in.

 

The police are not professional boxers, so I don't think they should stop me fighting outside the pub.

The police are not pharmacists, so they shouldn't interfere when I'm selling drugs.

The police are not Lewis Hamilton, so they shouldn't stop me going at eleventy-seven mph in a 30 zone.

 

But I do not own any goats TBH

 

Bu.m tish

 

no its not. After the eye test the optician asks you if you drive and then tells you if your eyesight is good enough to drive with or without spectacles. Well they have on mine over the years and my wife too.

 

The opticians measure eyesight by a number.

Driving law measures it by ‘can you see a number plate 20m away?’

It’s your responsibility to check that you can see that far every time you get into a vehicle. Not once a year.

 

and what about the lycra clad chuffs on bikes, they can ride on at some good speeds , are they gonna be checked too.

 

Serious question, but why do you need to be able to read a number plate from 20m away? There’s a big difference from reading a number plate and seeing a kid run out into the road, and the road signs are much easier to read than number plates.

 

Wasn't an advert,,,a documentary

 

so on that reasoning its your responsibility to have a driving test every time you get into a vehicle as a driver.... and not Once in a Lifetime.

 

If you have an eye test in, say, January 2017 and your glasses are working fine, then have one in January 2018 and require new glasses, then surely at some point between these two dates your prescription became incorrect. I accept that your eyesight is unlikely to deteriorate that much in a year (although it could - and does - happen), but the theoretical point stands. What about if you had an eye test two years ago - would it be acceptable to sue the police then, on the ground that your 2016 optician knows more than them? What about if it's your 2007 optician? 1997?

I'm generally sober at three o'clock in the afternoon - I'll remember to impress this point on the police if I ever get pulled over at midnight.

 

If I had to guess, it’s because there’s always a number plate around to test with. There’s not always a kid or a sign