Did you know the DVLA brought in new minimum eyesight rules in March 2013?
Group 1 Cars and Motorcycles Drivers must:
Be able to read a car number plate (with the aid of glasses or corrective lenses if needed) from a distance of 20 metres.
Have a visual acuity of at least Snellen6/12. This means that the driver can read, from 6 metres away, characters which a person with normal (or Snellen 6/6) vision can read from 12 metres away and
Have a horizontal field of vision of at least 120 degrees. This means, when looking straight ahead and without turning your head or eyes, a driver must be able to see 60 degrees to both the left and right.
Group 2 Buses and Lorries
For these drivers, there will be a new less stringent visual acuity standard for the weaker eye when each eye is separately examined. This means a Group 2 driver must have a visual acuity of at least Snellen 6/7.5 (see above) in the better eye and of at least Snellen 6/60 in the other eye.
If you need to wear glasses to reach this standard they must not have a corrective power greater than plus (+) 8 dioptres.
Does this affect you? https://www.gov.uk/driving-eyesight-rules
Group 1 Cars and Motorcycles Drivers must:
Be able to read a car number plate (with the aid of glasses or corrective lenses if needed) from a distance of 20 metres.
Have a visual acuity of at least Snellen6/12. This means that the driver can read, from 6 metres away, characters which a person with normal (or Snellen 6/6) vision can read from 12 metres away and
Have a horizontal field of vision of at least 120 degrees. This means, when looking straight ahead and without turning your head or eyes, a driver must be able to see 60 degrees to both the left and right.
Group 2 Buses and Lorries
For these drivers, there will be a new less stringent visual acuity standard for the weaker eye when each eye is separately examined. This means a Group 2 driver must have a visual acuity of at least Snellen 6/7.5 (see above) in the better eye and of at least Snellen 6/60 in the other eye.
If you need to wear glasses to reach this standard they must not have a corrective power greater than plus (+) 8 dioptres.
Does this affect you? https://www.gov.uk/driving-eyesight-rules
