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ROAD SAFETY organisation GEM Motoring Assist is urging drivers to avoid getting behind the wheel if they have any concerns about their eyesight.

During recent months, with routine eyesight tests hard or impossible to come by, some drivers may have become aware of changes in their vision, and GEM is asking them to do the responsible thing and avoid driving.

GEM road safety officer Neil Worth said: GEM has long campaigned for more rigorous and routine eyesight testingin the interests of road safety.

A proper eye test will also measure peripheral awareness, eye coordination, depth perception, ability to focus and colour vision.

If you are concerned about changes to the quality of your vision, please dont put yourself and others at risk by driving. Instead wait to have a propereyesight test before you get behind the wheel.

There are simply no excuses fordriving when youreunsure you can see properly, as you risk causing injury not only to yourself but to your passengers and anyone else who happens to be in your way.

Poor eyesight is linked to more than 3,000 fatal and serious injury collisions every year.We believe all drivers should have an eye test every two years, just to ensure there are no safety concerns about their vision and to deal with any developing issues at an early stage.

The current eyesight test was introduced to the driving test in 1937 and has only been amended in minor ways over the years to reflect changing number plate sizes. It is the only eyesight test drivers are required to undertake until they reach the age of 70.

According to GEM, the test is crude and outdated, as it only measures visual acuity (sharpness). It could also quite easily examine a drivers field of view, as is done in many US states, to check whether motorists can see and react to whats happening around them.

Worth adds: Asking someone to read a number plate at 20.5 metres (67 feet) cannot on its own be a measure of their fitness to continue driving.

A proper eye test will also measure peripheral awareness, eye coordination, depth perception, ability to focus and colour vision. Before getting back on the road after lockdown, we encourage every driver with any eyesight concerns to book a test and ensure everything is in order.

Eyesight has until now not been a major consideration for those who may have contracted coronavirus.

The possibility thatCovid-19 may have an affect on eyesight has been in the spotlight after prime minister Boris Johnsons chief adviser Dominic Cummings attempted to explain to the nation why he had driven to a local beauty spot during his controversial visit to Durham which came at the height of the coronavirus lockdown.

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