Driving Eyesight Requirements.
Before you start to learn to drive, make sure you know the eyesight requirements. If you need to wear glasses or contact lenses to meet the requirements, you must wear them every time you drive.If you have an eyesight condition.
When you apply for your driving licence, you must tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) if you have any visual condition which affects...
- Both eyes - not including short or long sight or colour blindness
- Your sight - not including short or long sight or colour blindness - for example, if you have sight in one eye only
If you have had sight correction surgery.
If you have had sight correction surgery you should declare this when you apply for your provisional licence.
The practical driving test eyesight test.
At the start of the practical driving test, your driving examiner will ask you to read the number plate on a parked vehicle. You get up to three chances to get it right.
You'll have to read the number plate from a distance of...
- 20 metres for vehicles with a new-style number plate (cars registered after September 2001).
- 20.5 metres for vehicles with an old-style number plate (cars registered before September 2001).
If you can't read the first number plate correctly, you'll be asked to read a second number plate.
If you can't read the second number plate correctly, the examiner will measure the distance to a third number plate. This is your final chance to read a number plate correctly.
If you can't read the second number plate correctly, the examiner will measure the distance to a third number plate. This is your final chance to read a number plate correctly.
If you can't read the third number plate, the examiner will be satisfied that you don't meet the required eyesight standard. This will result in your driving test not continuing and you failing your driving test.
The examiner will then ask you to sign a form stating you were unable to comply with the eyesight requirements. The DVLA will be told that you did not meet the eyesight requirements and your licence will be revoked.
Wearing glasses or contact lenses while driving.
Wearing glasses or contact lenses during your test.
You are not allowed to remove your glasses or contact lenses when carrying out test manoeuvres (reversing and so on). If you wear glasses or contact lenses to read the number plate and remove them during the test, you'll be reminded you must wear them. If you refuse to wear them, the test will not continue.
If you don't bring your glasses to your test.
If you have broken, forgotten or brought the wrong glasses, tell your examiner at the start of the test. If you don't tell the examiner and you attempt and fail the eyesight test, your test will be recorded as a failure. The rest of the test will not go ahead.
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