Drivers over 70 to face eye exams each three years | EUROtoday

Drivers over the age of 70 should have their imaginative and prescient checked each three years, underneath plans to reform driving legal guidelines in Britain.

The modifications are a part of the federal government’s new highway security technique, which shall be revealed on Wednesday.

Other proposed measures embody decreasing the drink-driving restrict in England to match the restrict in Scotland, and giving penalty factors for not carrying seatbelts.

These measures had been first reported in August and are anticipated to be confirmed on this week’s technique.

Last yr, an inquest into the deaths of 4 folks killed by drivers with failing imaginative and prescient stated enforcement of eyesight requirements on the roads was “ineffective and unsafe”.

HM Senior Coroner for Lancashire Dr James Adeley identified that the UK was one among solely three nations to depend on self-reporting of visible situations affecting the flexibility to drive.

He referred to as the licensing system “the laxest in Europe”.