Joe Ayling: Police campaign serves important reminder

Attitudes towards drivers’ vision continue to trail behind other simple precautions in life.

Far too many drivers rank their vision somewhere between making the effort to eat a healthy breakfast and the separation of different plastics for the recycling bin.

As the pages of Optician report this week, a third of those responsible enough to obtain vision correction are forgetting to wear their spectacles.

It comes as more than 70 people continue to be killed or seriously injured on UK roads each day.

Eyewear should be pride of place on the driver dashboard and mindset, alongside wearing a seatbelt and following the speed limit, but in so many polls it emerges as a ‘nice-to-have’.