Drivers should be randomly stopped and given eyesight checks to tackle so-called ‘looked but didn’t see’ crashes, the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) has said.
The motorcycle lobby group made its proposal after MCN revealed Sussex Police’s approach was to stop riders for not wearing hi-vis clothing.
In a letter to the force, MAG President Ian Mutch says the benefit of hi-vis clothing is unproven and suggests ‘operation spectacle’ instead.
The letter says: ‘MAG is uncomfortable with the implicit suggestion that riders are partially to blame when involved in accidents with motorists who claim not to have seen them.
'MAG has a philosophic commitment to free choice over the clothing style and standards which riders adopt, and so we view any attempt to coerce riders into a code of clothing conduct as worrying…
‘I wonder in conclusion if you would consider an operation that involves stopping motorists for random roadside eyesight checks? Operation spectacle perhaps?’
Could well be many that would fail an eye test, but I suspect the greater problem is not that folk can't see, but that they don't look.
Not seeing and not looking are very different, but no one would ever admit to the latter.
I do wonder tho how many will need to put on thier glasses to read a number plate?
I remember a great aunt of mine saying that she did not need her glasses for driving ... only for reading things ... then promptly had to put them on when asked to read a number plate
Have to agree its more likely to be didnt look rather than didnt see
Not sure i wud want to be stopped at roadside and asked to take an eye test, knowing the way i am when i get stopped every xmas and breathalised (mind i dont drink), i go into fits of giggles and end up nearly shooting myself in the foot !!!
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