What complete and utter bollox. So you dont think people should be able to prove they can see when driving ? Especially as it's also a legal requirement that if your eyes are fucked up, you must wear glasses when driving ? I'd say it's a pretty basic and important feature tat your eyes work, of course it also requires the driver to have a brain attached to those eyes.

If you think it's only people who drive for long periods who crash, you're deluded.

It's fucking assholes who dont look and pull out of junctions, people who dont look when changing lanes, people who dont look and drive through red lights. Cyclists who dont look or just dont give a shit, pedestrians who also dont look...etc.
People who are just plain fucking blind often through either stupidity or choice and should not be anywhere near public road.

None of the above has to do with driving for long periods or anything remotely like it. It's just blind assholes who either cannot see, or just choose not to see. Either way there is no place for people like that on the roads.

The police have roadside operations everywhere checking for speed, doing checks for MOT or vehicle defects...when do they ever have checks for defective drivers, which IS the biggest cause of accidents ?

They dont. Why is that ?

Really, until they are making a real effort targeting real areas that need improving AND then offering or enforcing education or re-training for those who have caused accidents etc, it's just impossible for any sane person to take them seriously.

And as for drink or drugs. Irrelevant. Unfit to drive is unfit to drive. Whatever causes someone to be unfit doesnt matter a damn. If you're unfit you shouldnt be driving, and there are many many unfit sober drivers...often proven when people do cause accidents.

At the minute the police couldnt even have a clue who causes, or how many accidents are caused on a daily basis. If you phone them about an accident most of the time they just say it's fuck all to do with them.

If they feel someone who has caused an accident is perfectly safe and doesnt need speaking to....again, no sane person can take anything they ever say about road safety seriously.

When they start targeting those who have caused harm and damage, start educating them...and not people who havent caused harm or damage..then and only then might we see some genuine improvements in road safety.
As it is, certainly over here, all I can see them operating is a road death policy, almost actively encouraging people to die through their lack of positive action.