Each eye has to have what is called 6/6 vision, which is the ability to read a number plate at 66.5 yards, and sideways vision must be normal in both eyes. The testing is done with the aid of a vision screener.
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Every driving licence applicant must undergo a sight test which checks the daytime sight in both eyes. In Germany the standard is extremely high. Checks are also made on night blindness, eye muscle balance, field of vision-this is sideways vision, which is very important in terms of accidents- and adaptation to glare. If spectacles are prescribed for driving they must be worn.
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In France drivers must not have a vision standard of less than the ability to read a number plate at 53¼ yards in one eye and the ability to read a number plate at 6.6 yards in the other. In addition, checks are made of the eye movement, colour blindness and adaptation to glare. In Belgium drivers must not have less than the ability to read a number plate at 32 yards in each eye-not in one eye -with or without spectacles.
I want to quote one or two examples because they are significant. It is by a long way the lowest eyesight standard laid down by any of the major nations for motorists. The conditions would be met by a person with absolutely no vision in one eye and what the opticians call 6/15 vision-quite defective vision-in the My first point to the Minister is that this minimum requirement in the United Kingdom is a very low standard of eyesight. This is virtually the same minimum requirement as in the original regulation, made in 1930, SR & TO 1930/938. 1970/170, which lays down that a person may not be granted a licence unless he or she is able, with or without glasses, to read a registration mark fixed to a motor vehicle at a distance of 25 yards, assuming that the registration mark contains letters and figures 3½ inches high. For the United Kingdom the regulations currently in force are to be found in SI.
I wish to raise, at this rather late hour, the question of minimum eyesight requirements and the issue of driving licences. Geoffrey Rhodes (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East)
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