Look out!

[Shane]

 

Just seen on the BBC news that the Police are clamping down (and going to test at every opportunity) drivers' eyesight.

 

If you fail the test your license may be revoked.

 

Us old timers better make sure we are specced up or got the contacts in.

[Steve Bullman]

I saw that briefly earlier.  I wonder what the tests consist of.  I need glasses!

[eggsarascal]

2 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

I saw that briefly earlier.  I wonder what the tests consist of.  I need glasses!

According to the news this morning the test is reading a number plate 20 meters away.

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

Ah I can probably manage that still 

[Gary Prentice]

The two f+@@wits that have pulled out me today definitely need their eyes testing! 

 

[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, Gary Prentice said:

The two f+@@wits that have pulled out me today definitely need their eyes testing! 

 

I'm glad it's not just me, a woman did it on me today causing me to swerve nearly hitting another car. It wasn't her day, there was a copper right behind her. The nasty copper blue lighted her for a little chat.

[Gary Prentice]

Karma sucks don't it?

 

 

[openspaceman]

4 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

According to the news this morning the test is reading a number plate 20 meters away.

 

 

It seems to have been triggered by an older gent allegedly pulling onto the wrong carriageway of the A3, the local news posted a picture but I couldn't recognise the spot.

 

Anyway the gent could only reada plate at 7 metres.

 

I have always worn specs, initially for driving  but soon after permanently since I was 16. Nowadays as my sight has  changed I can manage the 20 metres with one eye but not the other  but am so accustomed to wearing glasses that I continue to.

[eggsarascal]

4 hours ago, Gary Prentice said:

Karma sucks don't it?

 

 

It is, but it doesn't do my blood pressure any good ? 

 

I was at a roundabout wanting  to take the the second exit, she was in the first exit wanting to pull out, and she did. I very nearly forced the car in the inside lane of the roundbout into it. I don't like seeing people nicked for a mistake. I hope she got off with a good old fashioned bollocking.

[eggsarascal]

8 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

It seems to have been triggered by an older gent allegedly pulling onto the wrong carriageway of the A3, the local news posted a picture but I couldn't recognise the spot.

 

Anyway the gent could only reada plate at 7 metres.

 

I have always worn specs, initially for driving  but soon after permanently since I was 16. Nowadays as my sight has  changed I can manage the 20 metres with one eye but not the other  but am so accustomed to wearing glasses that I continue to.

Same sort of thing happened on the A14 in Bury-st-Edmunds a few years ago. Old boy drove up the off slip onto the wrong carriageway. One of my work mates was a retained firefighter, he told me it wasn't a pleasant call.