Gli over 70 rischiano il divieto di guida se non superano i test oculistici obbligatori
https://news.sky.com/story/over-70s-face-driving-ban-if-they-fail-mandatory-eye-tests-13490951
di topotaul
Tag
Austria
Belgio
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cechia
Croatia
Croazia
Czech
Czechia
Czech Republic
Danimarca
Denmark
Estonia
Europa
Europe
France
Francia
Germania
Germany
Grecia
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Irlanda
Polonia
Polska
Portogallo
Portugal
Regno Unito
Repubblica Ceca
Repubblica di Turchia
Romania
Serbia
Slovacchia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Svezia
Sweden
Turchia
Turkey
Ucraina
Ucraino
Ukraine
Ungheria
United Kingdom
25 commenti
If you can’t see why this makes sense, there’s a decent chance you’re over 70.
I think that’s unfair. They know the way into town by now. Besides, when one sense fails others improve, so with big ears, they can echolocate.
Everyone that fails the eye test should be banned. Blind under 70’s are just as capable of killing people in a vehicle. Age is just a number.
Everybody should have to do a mandatory eye test every five years. Everybody.
There’s nothing wrong with this. You shouldn’t be driving if you can’t see. Seems fairly obvious
Shouldn’t anyone face a driving ban if they fail an eye test?
Duno why they’re complaining quick drive to barnard castle and they’re sorted.
More doctors should be sending referrals off to the DVLA. Blindness? Mobility issues? Dementia? If a patient has any of these and the doctor knows they have a license, it should be am instant referral to DVLA for an investigation.
This is not just about eyesight, it is about your physical and mental ability to manoeuvre a 1 tonne piece of metal amongst other 1 tonne pieces of metal and vulnerable flesh capsules (humans).
Funny how they will target the old (who are potentially a risk) but very rarely permanently ban people actually committing serious driving offences.
Regular sight tests should be part of the requirements of having a driving license for all ages. Sight tests aren’t exactly expensive.
Being able to see adequately before getting into a steel box that can kill easily is a no brainer.
On a related note, it is absurd that opticians and other medical professionals are currently under no legal obligation to report to the DVLA eye conditions in patients that could seriously impair their ability to drive safely. They can report a patient under certain circumstances, but this can be easily avoided by the patient in question simply lying about intending to self-reporting their condition.
This new measure would at least be a step in the right direction.
Good it should go further too and include reaction and cognitive tests as well. Far too often you see people bumbling about in cars totally oblivious to whats going on around them and doing really weird things on the road.
As part of the Highway Code. You are responsible for ensuring your eyes are regularly checked. This is just a sensible extension of that. I get my eyes tested every 4 years. Unfortunately all eyes deteriorate with age period. The idea is that you take corrective measures and don’t endanger other people because vanity.
It’s a start. But how about a hazard perception test? It wasn’t part of their first driving test but it would be good to test reaction times and what they might perceive as hazard worthy while driving.
Good, but it should come with an increase in accessible public transport provision.
I work in motor insurance. Statistically old people are significantly less risk to other drivers than others tbh.
Whilst there is a danger of accidents, most old people do not drive the same mileage in the same conditions, speed or time of day that anyone else does. Most accidents are things like a small bump in a car park or of minimal claim cost and infrequent. In general, insurers do not look at it as a risk.
Based on this, I feel it’s unfair to single them out when every other age group is more hazardous.
If you are going to do something like this. Make it the same for everyone.
ALL drivers who fail eye tests should be banned from driving.
It’s all about safety.
This should apply to everyone who has a driving license tbh.
Good. Personally I think everyone regardless of age should be having semi regular checks to make sure they’re still fit and safe to drive but this especially applies to those that passed their tests 50+ years ago and most likely haven’t had any sort of training or checks since.
The standard of driving is poor and getting worse so the barrier of entry to driving (which is an earned privilege not a right) should definitely be higher.
I feel I have a good perspective on this – I’m 29, had a licence since 18, I live rurally, in a small village where the average age is far over 55, and where we are a fifteen minute drive to the nearest artery road.
Older drives have caused accidents on the country roads here; and many who haven’t yet, it’s a matter of time. Erratic braking, crawling and speeding up erratically, panicking and pulling out at junctions; and yes, some sadly have been from eyesight issues like cataracts not being reported, or from onset of dementia, forgetting where they’re going. It’s sad for all involved.
Meanwhile, the younger drivers, bored and just passed from the next town over go too fast on the artery road; often don’t have the awareness of driving to road conditions. They’ll perform overtaking that is illegal and dangerous, including in blind hills – it’s a head on crash waiting to happen.
In my opinion, we should be retested, as other commenters have pointed out there’s no other training so safety focussed you only do once. I do my BBP/First Aid/CPR annually for professional membership.
I think the NHS is in a bad way, and in many ways stretched further thin in areas with a high elderly population who likely have more ongoing healthcare needs and a lack of community care. A better funded and managed NHS could provide more health checks for people 55+. And, if you want older drivers to not drive past their safety, vote for policy that includes improved public transport, especially in rural areas. A lot of people in the village have admitted they’d stop driving if the public transport was more frequent and reliable.
For younger drivers, since moving here I think we should move to a system of cars like we have for motorbikes. If you pass in a 1.2L Corsa, you shouldn’t just be able to buy a 2L turbo-charged Audi. With bike licences you retest your skills if you want to get more powerful bikes, your licence is tied to the power of the bike you’re using.
And given how brazen the scary overtaking and tailgating and speeding are, we’d need more police officers out to actually stop them. You can commit whatever traffic offences you like if there’s no one to fine you. This includes illegal mods to cars like those blinking brake lights and colourful headlights, that no one is pulled over for, because there’s no one to pull them over.
It’s an issue I’m fed up of seeing argued as a one side or the other issue. I’d invite anyone who sees it that way to try a couple weeks in rural UK.
Oh man, I love being nearly blind in my 30s and driving /s
We should have mandatory driving tests every 10 years when the license expires, and over 70s should have theirs expire every 5 years.
As well as the eyesight thing.
Driving is not a right, but a privilege
Was a police officer have dealt with many crashes involving the elderly:
Had a chap who had been banned by a court because he kept crashing into things and the DVLA had revoked his licence. He didn’t tell anyone and kept getting caught and the car seized and somehow getting it back.
I caught him (he pushed my diminutive female colleague into a snowy hedge, which she found quite amusing as neither of us expected it and so he got nicked) in interview he apologised for the assault but would not have it that he was banned – his argument was that the bloke in the post office gave him his driving licence with the immortal words “no one can ever take this away from you”, he agreed that a court had banned him but the man in the post office in 1953 (or whenever) had told him that no one could ever take it from him and that superceded the magistrate’s words.
Eventually the family found out and took the car from him but he wouldn’t ever have it – i believe this would be a sign of dementia.
These people are dangerous and a lot of them are stubborn about losing their independence, I think nearly all of the collisions I went to where the car had rolled in a low speed impact were elderly. Think about it you can pass a test at 17 drive for 60 years without anybody ever checking you remember where the brake pedal is. No other heavy machinery is like this, people are subjected to testing periodically it makes sense to pass a test every 10 years.
I’d be up for this every ten years regardless of age, plus more frequent testing for older people.
Perhaps (and I know this’ll annoy the civil libertarians) opticians could be allowed (opt-in by customers) to pass on certified eye test results to the DVLA. That way, people who get regular eye tests anyway wouldn’t have any extra workload.
This will be another thing that while will save lives in the long run but they will blame Starmer for attacking the pensioners