A week of news - optics finds drivers' vision ally

Despite proposals this year to make the number plate easier it is difficult to find an individual in the UK who wouldn't benefit from safer roads.

Optics, of course, has a vested interest in tightening up drivers' vision laws and this week found an ally in the insurance industry.

While practitioners would stand to benefit should drivers be made to have their eyes tested, the estimated drop in accidents would also favour motor insurers.

Cue RSA, owner of insurance behemoth More Than, which has thrown its weight behind a new campaign called Fit to Drive. It has also commissioned a study to Brunel University.