Driving: Eyesight

(asked on 16th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people were injured in road traffic accidents where the driver's visual acuity was found to be below the legal acceptable level in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 2nd September 2014

The numbers of casualties in injury accidents where a motor vehicle driver was assigned contributory factory “uncorrected or defective eyesight” by a police officer at the scene of an accident are given in table below, by casualty severity, for each year since 2010.

Number of motor vehicle drivers with "uncorrected or defective eyesight" as a contributory factor

in reported injury accidents by casualty severity: GB 2010 - 2013

Contributory factor reported in accident 1

Killed

Seriously injured

Slightly injured

All casualties

Uncorrected, defective eyesight

2010

4

38

279

321

2011

9

52

296

357

2012

6

62

276

344

2013

9

54

252

315

1 Includes only accidents where a police officer attended the scene and in which a contributory factor was reported.

The Department does not collect information on specific conditions such as “visual acuity”, but it is likely to be captured by the broader contributory factor above.

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