Your Eyesight, Driving & The Law

LOUGHBOROUGH, U.K. - Aug. 24, 2015 - PRLog -- Make sure that you don’t get caught out when it comes to driving. Recent changes in legislation (Cassie's law) mean that now police have the power to immediately suspend or revoke a driving licence if you fail a routine vision check they may carry out.

Visual Answers optometrists will always ensure that your prescription is correct, up-to-date and will answer any queries you may have about driving and the law.

Lead Optometrist Mohammed Bhojani has the follwing tips and advice to give:

·          Have your vision checked at least every two years

·          Keep a spare pair of glasses in your car (In Europe, you have to by law)

·          Keep a pair of prescription sunglasses in the car to combat bright sunlight, especially in the winter when the sun is low.

It is important to remember that vision provides approximately 95% of the sensory input to the brain needed for driving.

Many young people start to learn to drive without ever having had an eye examination and it is therefore vital to ensure that your vision meets the standards required by the DVLA before you start to drive.

Whilst older drivers benefit from the experience they have gained, they are also significantly affected by the reduced transmission of light through the eye with natural ageing. It is therefore essential for the older driver to have a regular eye examination and to discuss the best lens options and features that will enhance vision for easy comfortable and optimal driving. As we get older we can face difficulties with contrast sensitivity, light and dark adaptation, glare, colour perception and restricted field of view; and these difficulties are often exaggerated when driving at night.

When the eye is adapted to a specific light level then light sources much more intense than the prevailing level produce “glare”. Night driving is a common difficulty occurrence, when the eye is adapted to the dark but an oncoming headlight produces glare and flare.  In older people, the natural age-induced clouding of the crystalline lens causes light entering the eye to scatter, which increases the glare dramatically.

An anti-reflection treatment to the lens such as Essilor Crizal coating can reduce glare significantly by allowing more light to pass through the lens without unwanted and nuisance reflections from the surface of the lens. This can help to reduce ghosting effects and haloes around lights when night driving, improve visual acuity and contrast, reduce eyestrain and fatigue, as well as improing the cosmetic appearance of spectacle lenses.

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At Visual Answers Optometrists we are lens partners with Essilor – the most innovative and premium quality lens manufacturer in the world. Their top of the range coatings include Crizal Forte UV, which reduces glare, improves night driving and protects your eyes from harmful UV rays. The lens also has a 2 year ‘no-quibble’ guarantee against any damage to the lenses (including scratching) .

For the next 14 days, Visual Answers in association with Essilor are offering 15% off all Crizal lenses with this email. Call Quorn on 01509 414151 or Barrow on 01509 416800 for more information

Visual Answers Optometrists 22 High St Quorn Loughborough LE12 8DT

Visual Answers Optometrists 28 High St Barrow Loughborough LE11 8PY

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