The government should require drivers to have their eyesight tested regularly, road safety charity Brake has claimed. This - according to a survey from the RSA Insurance Group – could “significantly reduce” the two-thousand nine-hundred casualties caused by poor vision each year (estimated).

 

Brake is, therefore, calling on the government to require drivers to prove they have recently been tested when applying for a provisional licence, then every ten years thereafter. The government should also – the charity has claimed - raise awareness of the importance of regular testing via correspondence with the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency.

 

This could come at the same time as a reminder to pay vehicle excise duty. And it seems that legislation might be required as countless motorists fail to self regulate. As such, twenty-five percent of the survey respondents have not had a test within the last two years, and twelve percent within the last five. Four percent – alarmingly - have never been professionally tested.

 

It is, therefore, curious that eighty-seven percent are “in favour” of legislation that requires them to visit an optician.

 

 

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