Driving with poor eyesight.

[A.J.]

I'd like them to stop people driving vehicles where they can hardly see over the steering wheel. It can't be safe!

I expect we all know one like that, the guy I work for for example. His wife is about 5ft nothing and drives a Bentley Continental. All you can see ia a tuft of blonde hair above the steering wheel and that is a big car, and a powerful one !!

 

[flowrider]

I expect we all know one like that, the guy I work for for example. His wife is about 5ft nothing and drives a Bentley Continental. All you can see ia a tuft of blonde hair above the steering wheel and that is a big car, and a powerful one !!

Where I live we have loads of 4x4 drivers that can barely see over the steering wheel, from my cars seated position I can't actually see their eyes so I'm pretty sure they can't see me. Surely that can't be safe!

 

[sonic]

I just want to see the look on the copper's face when he asks them to perform the sight test and they root about in their bag for their glasses first.

When I joined the police you weren't accepted if you wore glasses.

 

[Ken_R]

When I joined the police you weren't accepted if you wore glasses.

I can remember working with someone on a Traffic Attachment who wore glasses. One time, I picked up the handset, requested a moving PNC, and then reeled off the VRM.

He immediately sat forward asking, "How can you read that from here?".

How Standards have changed!

 

[McDonald]

A friend did Voluntary Service Overseas after leaving school and spent a year in Tasmania. The lorry-trains were a bit daunting at the best of times, but he encountered one whose driver was reading a broadsheet newspaper while trundling towards him. He learned later that it was a trick played frequently. The driver had cut two small holes which he could see through, but oncoming traffic endured 'near-death' experiences. Tazzie humour doesn't travel, I think.

 

[keefysher]

A friend did Voluntary Service Overseas after leaving school and spent a year in Tasmania. The lorry-trains were a bit daunting at the best of times, but he encountered one whose driver was reading a broadsheet newspaper while trundling towards him. He learned later that it was a trick played frequently. The driver had cut two small holes which he could see through, but oncoming traffic endured 'near-death' experiences. Tazzie humour doesn't travel, I think.

An 'initiation' we had was driving a ute under the axle of a Euclid dump truck on mine sites, just about clears!!

Another was lighting up a ciggie in a refuge particularly if guys had not been down a non explosive atmosphere mine before like a fair few coal miners!!!

Tassie humour does travel. The old chat up line to a Sheelagh, 'show us yer map of Tassie' (think about it!!)

 

[John Laidlaw]

An 'initiation' we had was driving a ute under the axle of a Euclid dump truck on mine sites, just about clears!!

Another was lighting up a ciggie in a refuge particularly if guys had not been down a non explosive atmosphere mine before like a fair few coal miners!!!

Tassie humour does travel. The old chat up line to a Sheelagh, 'show us yer map of Tassie' (think about it!!)

Not beating about the bush there Keith?

 

[keefysher]

Not beating about the bush there Keith?

Brace yourself. In a typical Aussie drawl

 

[peterws1957]

My mate used to be stopped by the Police virtually every time he went out in the car. I was very indignant on his behalf until I got a lift from him and quickly realised his sight was terrible, swerving out of the way at the last minute when approaching a parked car and similar. No wonder passing Police officers assumed he had been drinking. Now had his eyesight corrected.

 

[sonic]

My mate used to be stopped by the Police virtually every time he went out in the car. I was very indignant on his behalf until I got a lift from him and quickly realised his sight was terrible, swerving out of the way at the last minute when approaching a parked car and similar. No wonder passing Police officers assumed he had been drinking. Now had his eyesight corrected.

There lies the problem.

 

[idiotboy_78]

But it's fashionable to have the seat slammed into the weeds (along with the suspension) and the seat back almost horizontal. How's the Corsa* pilot supposed to look cool cruising Maccy D's if he can't get the look right?


*Citroen Saxo's and Fiesta ST wannabes also available.

By working harder to be able to afford a vehicle worth driving. Perhaps to save for a belt too, so the trousers can stay firmly where the waist is supposed to be.......!!