Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what powers a police constable has to require the drivers of vehicles involved in road accidents to undertake a simple roadside eye test.

The police are empowered under section 96 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to request that a person that they suspect of driving a motor vehicle, with eyesight that does not meet the minimum eyesight standard set out in the driving licence regulations, to take a roadside eyesight test.