Police are carrying out random stops on drivers in Cheshire to check their eyesight meets the legal standard.<\/p>\n
Cheshire Police is taking part in Operation Insight, a national road safety initiative to improve road safety through raising awareness of vulnerable road users and the importance of being fit to drive.<\/p>\n
Roadside vision screenings on motorists of all ages began on Monday and will continue until 8 November.<\/p>\n
Ch Insp Cameron Taylor, Cheshire Police’s head of roads and crime, said: “Our message is simple: if you drive, make sure your eyesight is checked regularly and that you wear any corrective lenses you need.”<\/p>\n
A Cheshire Police spokesperson said around 3,000 people across the country were seriously injured each year in crashes involving drivers or riders with uncorrected or defective eyesight.<\/p>\n
In 2025, 18 people lost their lives on UK roads as a result of vision-related factors, they added.<\/p>\n
During roadside screenings, officers will ask drivers to read a vehicle registration plate from the legally required distance of 66ft (20m), under appropriate daylight conditions and while wearing any corrective lenses they normally use for driving.<\/p>\n
Taylor said: “Good eyesight is one of the most important requirements for safe driving yet changes in vision can happen so gradually that people may not realise their sight has deteriorated.”<\/p>\n
He said Operation Insight is “about encouraging all motorists to take responsibility for checking that their eyesight meets the legal standard required for driving”.<\/p>\n
“While some changes in eyesight become more common as we age, vision can change at any stage of life. That’s why this campaign is aimed at all drivers,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are carrying out random stops on drivers in Cheshire to check their eyesight meets the legal standard.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-815563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}