Road Safety Week 20th - 26th November 2017

An estimated 2900 road casualties are caused by poor vision every year. We believe that we can all do more to help make our roads safer.

http://http://www.aop.org.uk/dontswerve

Did you know?

• 30% of road users have doubted whether their vision is good enough, yet continued to drive

• 26% say they’ve delayed getting their eyes checked by an optometrist despite suspecting their vision was getting worse, and 6% admit to stalling a sight test for more than a year

• Less than half (40%) would stop driving if they were told their vision, even with glasses or contact lenses, was below the legal standard for driving. With 10% saying that they would continue to drive as normal

• 16% admit to knowing a driver whose sight they believe to be below the legal vision standard