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Legal eyesight limits to drive in the UK

You must be able to read (with glasses or contact lenses, if necessary) a car number plate made after 1 September 2001 from 20 metres.

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You must also meet the minimum eyesight standard for driving by having a visual acuity of at least 20/40 (6/12) measured on the Snellen scale (with glasses or contact lenses, if necessary) using both eyes together or, if you have sight in one eye only, in that eye.
You must also have an adequate field of vision.
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But stronger glasses will help though won’t they?

Photograph of a pair of large rimmed tortoiseshell coloured glasses
But stronger glasses will help won’t they?
I love my reading glasses.
Panic if I can’t find them.
Not because they are especially fantastic or designer or anything like that. But they enhance and help my little eyes work things out and see better. At some point they won\’t. Until that point, I will make use of them best I can. So at the moment, it\’s all good ☺
They won’t repair and fill in the tiny blind spot that I have. Or will make any floaters that turn up temporarily, disappear.
But they do help so far.
It’s not just blurriness either, there is a double vision sometimes. Usually at the end of these day or through stress and tiredness.
People with the condition like me will have to study the words. I find it easier reading online as you can adjust the size of the font and zoom in.
Seeing pictures of a similar colour is hard. Every picture you show me has to be zoomed in so I can study it. Really detailed pictures take a bit of time to understand what’s happening. I may even ask you what it is so I can ‘see’ it.
This is all with my reading glasses on.
I bought them a year ago. They aren’t as good as they were but better than nothing, a lot better.
The floaters I have are grey to dark and don’t appear that often, more about these later in another post as they can make your vision puzzling and amusing sometimes.
I have started to clean with my glasses on as I’m paranoid I’m missing something. So they give me a bit more detail and can’t imagine not having them.