new driving licence rules for people over 70

[Robmac]

I think if you wear prescription glasses for driving that should be fine. You don't have to be elderly to have poor eyesight.

With my bins on I have 20/20 vision, without them I couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo!

 

[alcam]

I think if you wear prescription glasses for driving that should be fine. You don't have to be elderly to have poor eyesight.

With my bins on I have 20/20 vision, without them I couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo!

Think your eyesight can stop deteriorating or even improve when you're older .
Blind Willie McTell told me that !
Apparently there is some truth in it

 

[trevskoda]

I think if you wear prescription glasses for driving that should be fine. You don't have to be elderly to have poor eyesight.

With my bins on I have 20/20 vision, without them I couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo!

Are you stringing us along.

 

[REC]

I can't understand why a tick box can't be added to the yearly/ two yearly sight test at the optician. Should just state that sight is compliant with driving rules. That could cover everyone over or under 70yrs. Would sort that issue, and mean that drivers had to have regular sight tests.

 

[Fisherman]

P

I think if you wear prescription glasses for driving that should be fine. You don't have to be elderly to have poor eyesight.

With my bins on I have 20/20 vision, without them I couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo!

thats not the issue Rob. Some elderly people require surgery for carteracks, or who have macular degeneration etc sometimes undiagnosed who would fail an eye test and are still driving.

 

[GeoffL]

Think your eyesight can stop deteriorating or even improve when you're older .
Blind Willie McTell told me that !
Apparently there is some truth in it

It depends (in part) on your unaided acuity when young. Someone I know used to be short-sighted (IIRC), needed glasses for driving and could read unaided without problems; but now meets the C1 eyesight requirement unaided and needs glasses for reading.

P

thats not the issue Rob. Some elderly people require surgery for carteracks, or who have macular degeneration etc sometimes undiagnosed who would fail an eye test and are still driving.

There's no need to declare having had cataract removal surgery and even if you have cataracts, they might not be severe enough to significantly affect your driving (I passed the C1 eyesight test with one cataract still in place). That said, I was shocked at the increase in contrast and colour intensity after I'd had my cataracts removed. However, it's not just the over 70s who can suffer from cataracts, macular degeneration, etc. and so the tick-box that @REC suggested makes a lot of sense.

 

[trevskoda]

I can't understand why a tick box can't be added to the yearly/ two yearly sight test at the optician. Should just state that sight is compliant with driving rules. That could cover everyone over or under 70yrs. Would sort that issue, and mean that drivers had to have regular sight tests.

Cand read your post as letters to small.