I like how they include targeting senior drivers in the same sentence as pi$h heads on the roads.
“Drivers over 70 will be required to take a mandatory eyesight test and the drink-drive limit in England and Wales will be lowered as part of a new road safety strategy.”
When I had my last prescription specs this year, the optician said you need to be on having my eyes tested every twelve months from now on. He said my eyesight is good for my age.
Same with lowering the drink drive limit…can I just stress btw I do NOT drink and drive.
Tey are pandering to the brainwashed …''Your senses abd reactions are lowered by 00001% ‘’ or such sh, if you are on the legal limit aye they are also lowered if you have an in car conversation or scratch your arse.
The origin of the drink drive law is ‘‘Don’t drive DRUNK’’ not Do not drive with a miniscule of alchohol after eating a chocolate liquer sweet or washing your gob with listerine.
It will only go to close MORE rural pubs…what is his problem with pubs exactly? …the cynic in me points to pandering to Islam, …Yeah a bit dramatic, but he IS known for it… I can hear the lefties shouting ‘‘Racist’’ from here.
It’s not rocket science to work out the reason for the Socialist crusade against pubs and alcohol.You’re right it was don’t drive drunk not don’t have a pint and drive.The breathalyser just replaced the sobriety test in that regard.Also bearing in mind European countries with lower limits apply graduated penalties not our all or nothing regime.The same applies to small speed infringements including the French single warning camera flash.
As for the new medical regime it’s obvious that they intend to weaponise natural degeneration, that so far up to now has never been a problem, by ‘looking for it’ and ‘finding’ it.These aren’t ‘eye tests’ these are two tier medical examinations applied on an ageist basis.
Not because of ‘safety’ but because they don’t want older drivers on the road remembering and perceived as playing by, the old rules.’They’ meaning Starmer’s Communist handlers probably based closer to Beijing than Swansea.
You only have to follow other motorists on an unlit country road at night to appreciate just how woeful their eyesight must be! I think that all licence holders regardless of what vehicle they are driving should have a mandatory eye test every three years up until the age of 50 and then it should be an annual thing.
@carryfast you’re proof that you don’t need a long neck to be a goose. Why do you have to bring politics into every discussion? Clearly you do not understand politics. @maoster I’d suggest 40 is the age at which eyesight takes a nosedive.
We’ve already got the number plate test which applies day or night.Obviously the supposed ‘eyesight tests’ have nothing to do with that.
Equally obviously your observations, regarding people driving at 35 - 40 mph in a 60 limit for example, apply both night or day and aren’t age related either, unless you’ve stopped each and every one of them to ask their age.
So you’re saying that over 40 and under 40 can both pass the number plate test but that’s not good enough in the case of over 40 ?.
Why not just settle on the D4 form regardless of licence category or age ?.
Or are you saying that the D4 isn’t good enough for over 40’s either ?.
Politics as in removal of the accepted freedoms to drive that have been ok up to now.
It used to be different nationwide, ranging from .15 in WA to .08 in the eastern states. In the early 90s (assuming from a push by the Feds) it was standardised at .05 everywhere except NT, where it remained at .08. Later the Feds threatened to withhold road safety funding if The Territory didn’t fall into line with .05. In typical Territory fashion, they made .05~.08 a traffic offence with a minor fine and 24 hour licence suspension. Everywhere else DD is a criminal offence with a substantial fine and minimum three month disqualification.
Whatever a D4 is, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a biological fact that eyesight degenerates from ~40 years of age.
Driving is not an accepted freedom, it is a privilege dependent a number of compliances and qualifications.
Yep, it deffo was in my case.
Got glasses for reading at 40, then about 3 years later sat high up in the John Hall stand at Newcastle I realised I could not i.d. players, so my long sight was also shot at, so I had 2 pairs of different glasses.
Progressed later to vari focals.
Last medical for HGV I was told to wear them for driving…
Really speaking I should be wearing them all the time but my overblown vanity stops me
Had cartterachts removed from both eyes last year…(yeah I know, I’m too young for that.) so my long sight has improved a lot…now got eyes like Superman.
