South West Bikers | Motorcycle Forum

There's a few counties doing spot checks on drivers and also doing basic eyesight checks.

If you can't read a number plate at 65ft then they take your license there and then.

What if you only understand metric?

...or you just can't read at all ?

Then you'll be enrolled into the police force straight away.

. . . . . . . Where they'll make you ride an old Aprilia untill you learn to behave.

I'll take the points and walk instead thanks.

Hopefully the old bill won't be limiting the eyesight tests to crumblies - I've seen some shocking driving from younger people that can only be attributable to either myopia or plain stupidity. Unfortunately they've yet to devise a stupidity test and threshold, but we can hope....

I've known people in the past who should have worn glasses but choose not to for reasons of vanity - little point if you end up in jail for killing someone you couldn't see on the road

Good to know where all 3 of Devon and Cornwall Police Officers are at the moment, explains why I haven't seen any down here for a while!!