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Specsavers older drivers be warned .... Beware .....
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Rita_Poon
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There's a depression thread for dealing with the bad stuff, chucking hay makers around in here is probably only going to vex you more?
Have you not gone to bed yet - or are you still reading back issues of the Beano's?
Hinchcliffe's Corner
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Ffs.. they aren't paid to get rid of drivers. You sound just like a typical Tory OAP .
It's a good thing!! There are many many people out there that shouldn't be driving!!
Never buy glasses online either.
davids
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From my experience of driving in the UK that would be young females.
davids
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If you'd retired to Spain Joey you'd have had a lot more to deal with. Here a full medical including a BP test,copy of your medical records to check any medications you might be on,and a pretty tricky pair of old schools computer games to test your reaction times. It's probably prudent that the UK is at least doing eye tests to root out the few who need protecting from themselves.
A couple of years a go in Southport, we had a guy hit two elderly ladies that were crossing the road..
Now the guy could barely see and was almost blind. He should never have been driving and I believe had already been advised by his optician that he should not be driving any longer. However he ignored that advice..
So do you think its ok to keep driving in that case @Joey66 ??
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Now the guy could barely see and was almost blind. He should never have been driving and I believe had already been advised by his optician that he should not be driving any longer. However he ignored that advice..
So do you think its ok to keep driving in that case @Joey66 ??
Driver who ignored sight problem killed two women in Southport
Glyn Jones's vision was "well below the standard" when he hit two friends crossing a road, a court hears.
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Rita_Poon
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There's loads of em...A couple of years a go in Southport, we had a guy hit two elderly ladies that were crossing the road..
Now the guy could barely see and was almost blind. He should never have been driving and I believe had already been advised by his optician that he should not be driving any longer. However he ignored that advice..
So do you think its ok to keep driving in that case @Joey66 ??
Driver who ignored sight problem killed two women in Southport
Glyn Jones's vision was "well below the standard" when he hit two friends crossing a road, a court hears.
15mph death driver, 73, 'lied to DVLA about eyesight'
A 73-year-old partially-sighted driver who killed a pedestrian while driving at just 15mph should never have been on the road, his victim's family say.
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Langho crash: Man, 81, with poor eyesight jailed for fatal crash
Neil Pemberton had been told by doctors not to drive because his eyesight was so bad, police say.
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Man jailed over Worthing pedestrian death
An unlicensed driver with poor eyesight who killed a woman on a pedestrian crossing is jailed for 14 months.
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'Grey dawn', s07e10 South park, 5th Nov 2003
Just ticking along Joey. Thankfully i am glasses free at this moment in my life.
Rita_Poon
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A certain lady had two birthdays until fairly recent, saxe-coburg-gotha, her actual birthday on the 21st of April, and then an extra one for an extra round of presents and some marching music on the second Saturday in June.
This country is a circus.
Definitely not - but when an optician tells me my eyes will be ok for 12 months - & my right eye was a full 2.0 worse - plus my left eye was a bit weaker ? - Plus I queried the prescription with them afterwards & the girl who was high up stated no your eyes are fine reading the prescription over the telephone -A couple of years a go in Southport, we had a guy hit two elderly ladies that were crossing the road..
Now the guy could barely see and was almost blind. He should never have been driving and I believe had already been advised by his optician that he should not be driving any longer. However he ignored that advice..
So do you think its ok to keep driving in that case @Joey66 ??
Driver who ignored sight problem killed two women in Southport
Glyn Jones's vision was "well below the standard" when he hit two friends crossing a road, a court hears.
My son ordered my Glasses online they even needed a slightly thicker lens for the same glasses frame I normally purchase also when i asked for the pupil distance - quote no optician will give you that on your prescription - yet my wife next door different optician gave her the pupil distance - anyway Glasses Direct now have an App for pupil distance so I now have a lovely pair of glasses with great vision Veri Focal lenses & transitional lenses with the special offers they sometimes promote I suspect I paid a 1/3 of the price if I took my prescription anywhere on the high street - that's is where they IMO rip you off -
I am suspicious that my eyes would have deteriorated even more in 12 months - then he may have failed me to drive a car -
ref Christopher Biggins who has money lost his licence even after getting 2 official reports from a top hospital & a upmarket eye test - the DVLA - will not budge from the initial report - he is fighting his case but he has lost his licence - hence my warning if you Google Specsavers they are the only opticians who have the contract with the DVLA they have had it for years too ...
Look any good optician if someones eyes were very poor - they would let your GP know - you were unfit to drive , but my experience of no glasses needed - made me aware when my wife was on YouTube & this guy was having a rant over Specsavers - banning him - as Christopher Biggins found out the first bad report - the DVLA will not budge even with evidence from higher levels - afterwards - he has the cash to fight them he is devastated as he needs to travel etc...
All those who have had fun running my post down - Its just my bad experience with an optician who is the only one on a retainer with the DVLA
I will not return - I will go to a higher level of optician next year to say safe - my eyesight with my new prescription I feel they were needed so I just put the warning - why has a company had this contract since 2017 with the DVLA ?
I will never put foot in the place ever again - even when I queried my prescription - they stated it was alright ?
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Rita_Poon
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It's about accountability Joe, we're in a nation full of ambulance chasers.
Two things occurred to me reading this, next door got the laser surgery a few years ago and it cleared his eyes up brilliant, I quote "I can see as well as I could when I was 19 and doing basic training before my national service".
Then someone else, 30+ years ago, I was walking to the bus station and got in conversation with an old fellow, he was furious and not backward about letting on, "I shouldn't be going the bus me, I've recently been diagnosed with diabetes and it has affected my sight so I can't make out colours like I could", ... "if you get diabetes later in life be careful who you tell, because my Dr told the DVLA and I got a letter informing me my licence had been revoked".
I've not run your posts down Joe, there's engagement with the usual pish*taking, sure, but it's usually all harmless stuff. Something is burning your backside and has been for a while now, pm me or give it a whirl in the depression and therapy thread. There's great people in there goin through all sorts. Sometimes unburdening yourself of something can help you lighten up. It's awful being nagged by something and being made tired by it.
Anyway, you're not happy about the nanny state and feel backstabbed by a system that seems out for profit in spite of who it victimises and costs. If you feel so aggrieved get onto age uk and the other charity types and raise blue murder about being stitched up, knowledge is power and all that stuff. Forewarned is forearmed etc...
Today they're on retainer with the DVLA, tomorrow it'll be Dignitas... it's a slippery slope
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