In Focus: Eyes on road safety

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Thousands of schools, organisations and communities came together to support road safety charity Brake’s biggest annual campaign, Road Safety Week, on November 19-25. Those involved shared road safety messages, remembered people affected by road death and injury and raised funds to help Brake continue to campaign for safer roads.

This Road Safety Week, the Association of Optometrists (AOP) urged the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) to implement fail-safe visual assessment methods to improve road safety. AOP chief executive Adam Sampson welcomed latest DVSA plans to review how sight tests were administered, but branded intended changes to conduct ‘the driving test eyesight check in any level of light – not just good daylight’ as ‘concerning’ and ‘completely missing the mark’.