UK road safety push could see mandatory eye tests for older drivers | Road safety
Older drivers may encounter compulsory eye tests, and the drinking limit can be interrupted when the government tries to reduce the number of road deaths.
In a major revision of the British road security laws, ministers reported that they could not wear harder penalties and seat belts for uninsured drivers.
The proposals, which are expected to be published as part of a road security strategy in autumn, are concerned about the number of people killed or seriously injured on the roads of England.
Last year, 1,633 people were killed in traffic incidents and was seriously injured in about 28,000 seriously, and after a major decrease between 2000 and 2010, the numbers remained relatively constant.
“At the end of the last workers’ government, the number of people killed and seriously injured were recorded, but the numbers under consecutive conservative governments were stubbornly high.
“In any other case, thousands of people will not accept the death of 1,600 people heavily wounded, and NHS cost more than 2 billion £ a year.”
In the meantime, the number of people killed in beverage driving incidents has increased in the last decade, reached the highest level of 13 years in 2022, and the current road safety measures are no longer worried that it does not work.
In accordance with the plans taken by the transport secretary Heidi Alexander and for the first time in The Times, the beverage driving limit in England and Wales can be cut from 35 micrograms of alcohol from 22 micrograms of a 100 ml breath.
This figure would be compatible with the rest of Europe, which had no border with the British and Wales, which had cut the beverage driving limit in 2014.
The UK is also one of the only three European countries that rely on the self -informing of the vision problems that affect driving, and to take into account the mandatory eye tests for drivers over 70 years of age and a driving ban for those who have failed every three years.
It is reported that other offers allow the police allow prosecution to use drugs on the basis of salivary tests instead of blood tests because they are caught with increasing number of drivers in their systems.
The source of the worker added: “This workers’ government will present the first road security strategy in ten years, will apply harsh penalties to those who violate the law, protect the road users and restore order.”
The strategy will be published in autumn and all offers will be subject to consultation.
