Labour faces fury over plans for mandatory eye tests for older drivers | Politics | News
The new vote shows that the majority of elderly people are contrary to Labor’s compulsory eye tests plans for drivers over 70 years of age. Silver Voices saw that approximately 3,000 members of the campaign group did not support the proposals of the survey and 59% that they would see that unsuccessful people were slapped by driving bans.
While 32% supported compulsory eye tests plans, about 9% was not sure. However, 89% said they would support compulsory eye tests if the requirement is applied for all ages.
Silver Voices Director Dennis Reed accused the government of choosing retirees.
He called on to abandon the proposals, part of a major revision of Britain’s road security laws.
Mr. Reed said: “This offer is not considered, the age discriminatory and should be withdrawn.
“The priority should be to analyze traffic accident statistics, where bad vision is a factor, and to evaluate whether the drivers have any variation in their age.
“Without solid evidence, it is lazy and ridiculous to choose an age from the hat that compulsory eye tests should be applied.
“Older drivers are driven by the road and isolated from society, because the government wants to show that it is doing something about road safety.
“Silver sounds will not allow retirees to be a scapegoat again for wider policy failures.”
Over the 70s, every three years will be published as part of the security strategy for a road security strategy in autumn for plans to encounter compulsory eye tests and unsuccessful.
The UK is also one of the only three European countries that rely on the self -informing of vision problems that affect driving.
Bids include harder penalties to reduce the driving limit and not to wear uninsured driving and seat belts.
Last year on the roads of Britain, 1,633 people were killed in traffic events and approximately 28,000 were seriously injured, and after a major decrease between 2000 and 2010, the figures remained relatively constant.
A source of workers said: “At the end of the last workers’ government, the number of people killed and seriously injured on our ways were low, but the numbers under consecutive conservative governments remained high.
He continued: “In any other situation, 1,600 people have died, thousands of people are seriously injured in the NHS’ye more than 2 billion £ more than a year will not accept.”
