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Motorists should avoid causing a traffic accident by getting their eyes checked every two years.

This is the view of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), which maintains that a trip to the opticians can prevent licences being revoked.

Research from the Co-operative Motor Group found that the number of drivers that had their licences revoked due to failing eyesight has more than doubled over the past four years.

Kevin Clinton, head of road safety at RoSPA, said: "We don’t know if the rise in the number of people having their licence revoked is because more of them are failing to tell if their eyesight has deteriorated, or if motorists have simply been caught driving without their specs."

He said that the importance of eyesight to drivers means that the government should not weaken the eyesight part of the driving test, as it has proposed to do.

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Posted by M E Dixon

 

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