Re: 'Trendy' women risking lives by wearing sunglasses instead of their own spectacles while driving
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Re: 'Trendy' women risking lives by wearing sunglasses instead of their own spectacles while driving         

Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: BrianW
Date: Aug 18, 2008 11:15

On 18 Aug, 15:37, Tony Dragon btinternet.com> wrote:
> nightjar
>> "JNugent" NPPTG.com> wrote in message
>>news:eNudnYKlB-yirTTVnZ2dnUVZ8szinZ2d@pipex.net...
>>> Abo wrote:
>>>> Doug wrote:
>>>>> So will they also be imprisoned if they kill someone? I doubt it.
>
>>>>> "Women are risking lives by wearing sunglasses instead of their
>>>>> prescription spectacles while driving - because they are more trendy.
>
>>>>> More than 3.8million of the country's 14.3million female motorists who
>>>>> have vision problems admit driving without their glasses because they
>>>>> are too embarrassed to wear them.
>
>>>>> Twenty-six per cent said they had chosen trendy sunglasses instead.
>>>>> Incredibly, almost half of those with vision problems (42 per cent)
>>>>> relied on passengers to read road signs for them..."
>>>> You can get designer sunglasses with prescription lenses.
>>> Indeed. I have a pair.
>
>>> Mind you, it is necessary to whip them off quick when driving on mountain
>>> autostrada and entering a dimly-lit tunnel. Not having corrected vision is
>>> far preferable to driving in the double dark.
>
>> Not with my eyesight - I wouldn't be able to see the steering wheel, let
>> alone the road. I wear fast acting photochromics, which do well entering a
>> tunnel, but leave me blinking for a short while when I come out again.
>
>> Colin Bignell
>
> Doug I asked if you use glasses, you have not replied.
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