Driver Licence Eye Tests

The Dominion Post reports that 70% of those who fail the driver licence eye test, then pass the more sophisticated optometrist test. Naturally they want their test fees refunded.

I’m one of the 30% who failed to see the third column on the LTSA test, and then when I saw an optometrist found out that indeed my eyesight had been declining over time and I did need glasses. It may have been many many years until I had realised myself as a gradual decline is so hard to spot.