There has been a renewed plea by road safety charity Brake to tighten up regulations on drivers’ vision following a survey of drivers that shows strong support for the move among the public.
An impressive 87 per cent were in favour of drivers having to prove they have had a recent test every 10 years when renewing their licence or photo card. Among a long list of worrying statistics (see News) in the survey, also supported by Specsavers and RSA Insurance Group, was that one in five had put off visiting the optician when they noticed a problem.
Perhaps one of the stongest comments in support of the call for more rigorous checks was that by Mark Christer, managing director of personal insurance at RSA, who pointed out that the UK’s number plate test was a relic of the 1930s. One has to question what other legislation has remained unchanged in over 80 years? We are talking about a time when there were a million cars on the road, compared to the 2013 figure of almost 32 million.
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