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: ®i©ardo
Date: Aug 18, 2008 13:10

BrianW wrote:
> 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.

But they're not "rose tinted spectacles", so it can't be Doug.

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