Registered blind drivers! ?

Andy From Sligo · 03-03-2017 12:05pm #1

Can anyone shed light on how a driver can be registered blind but still drive!.., only I cannot understand as the 2 to me conflict!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154715640483001&id=167613868000

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GARDA post taken from their Facebook post today:

Please note that not all Disabled Drivers or passengers use wheelchairs!!!!

Disabled Person's Parking Permits or Cards are available to people living in Ireland with certain disabilities, some that may not appear obvious and those who are registered blind, whether they are drivers or passengers.

The parking card can be used by a disabled person in any vehicle in which he or she is travelling. This means that a disabled person who is being driven at different times by different people can bring the parking card with himself or herself and display it in the appropriate vehicle.

Mint Sauce · 03-03-2017 12:08pm

I think your post answers the question. The holder of the card, doesn't have to be the driver, but can be the passenger as well, and is transferable between cars.

ohnonotgmail · 03-03-2017 12:09pm

the clue is in the phrase

whether they are drivers or passengers.

Ninja'd by Mint Sauce

Del2005 · 03-03-2017 12:11pm

Could being blind in one eye count for a disabled badge?

Andy From Sligo · 03-03-2017 12:16pm

Ah right , so I should be reading it as "the holder being a badge holder, whether they are driving or passenger" rather than a "registered blind driver using a badge" then?

Your Face · 03-03-2017 12:29pm

You might need a badge yourself OP.

Ubbquittious · 03-03-2017 12:36pm

Echolocation

Andy From Sligo · 03-03-2017 12:40pm

Del2005 wrote: »

Could being blind in one eye count for a disabled badge?

You have to have perfect 20/20 vision dont ye? (Even if that means aided by glasses I think) isn't that how it works?

sammyjo90 · 03-03-2017 12:43pm

Nah people with a glass eye drive

Boom_Bap · 03-03-2017 12:44pm

There are many types of visual impairments.

Being gee-eyed driving is not recommended.

fryup · 03-03-2017 12:44pm

while we're at it....are deaf people allowed to drive?

seamus · 03-03-2017 12:49pm

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

You have to have perfect 20/20 vision dont ye? (Even if that means aided by glasses I think) isn't that how it works?

For driving? No. It doesn't have to be perfect, there's an allowed tolerance.

My understanding is that in some cases a person may be legally blind but with corrective lenses can just about manage to get inside the limits of what's required to drive.

fryup wrote: »

while we're at it....are deaf people allowed to drive?

Yes.

Fred Swanson · 03-03-2017 12:50pm

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Andy From Sligo · 03-03-2017 1:39pm

fryup wrote: »

while we're at it....are deaf people allowed to drive?

naw cause they cant hear the car stereo

03-03-2017 1:48pm

Guards must be turning a blind eye

Andy From Sligo · 03-03-2017 2:02pm

feck me .. blind people driving :eek: ... whatever next? !

Allinall · 03-03-2017 2:08pm

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

feck me .. blind people driving :eek: ... whatever next? !

It the reason pedestrian crossing lights beep beep when they turn red- to alert blind drivers to stop.

Andy From Sligo · 03-03-2017 2:23pm

Allinall wrote: »

It the reason pedestrian crossing lights beep beep when they turn red- to alert blind drivers to stop.

Badly Drunk Boy · 03-03-2017 2:25pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Being gee-eyed driving is not recommended.

Enough of this overly-technical medical terminology!

Andy From Sligo · 03-03-2017 2:48pm

that would be a cool party trick though and such a conversation piece taking out your glass eye and placing it on the table

... even better conversation piece would be taking out 2 glass eyes and giving them to the passenger to take care of whilst your driving

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corner of hells · 03-03-2017 2:49pm

You can drive if you're registered blind once your guide dog is with you , you must however have a white cane in the car at all times to clatter blind cyclists.

Andy From Sligo · 03-03-2017 2:53pm

corner of hells wrote: »

You can drive if you're registered blind once your guide dog is with you , you must however have a white cane in the car at all times to clatter blind cyclists.

why drive if you have a guide dog? - can you not let the guide dog drive? ... if its not blind that is ...

maudgonner · 03-03-2017 2:54pm

corner of hells wrote: »

You can drive if you're registered blind once your guide dog is with you , you must however have a white cane in the car at all times to clatter blind cyclists.

Just let the dog do the driving instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAK0J8Uhzk

He's not great with traffic lights though, the old colour blindness gets him every time.

Andy From Sligo · 03-03-2017 3:19pm

maudgonner wrote: »

Just let the dog do the driving instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAK0J8Uhzk

He's not great with traffic lights though, the old colour blindness gets him every time.

haha - feck driverless cars ... this IS the future ... we could all be chauffeured by dogs!

biko · 03-03-2017 4:55pm

I'm usually blind...

drunk when I drive. Makes the trip funner.

FanadMan · 03-03-2017 5:07pm

Wonder was this post by the Gardai a response to the photo that was going around Facebook of the squad car parked in the disabled bay outside a McDonalds?

RoisinClare6 · 03-03-2017 5:12pm

I have 2% vision in my right eye which also has a squint and I am allowed to drive

One eyed Jack · 03-03-2017 5:15pm

Plenty of visually impaired people are perfectly capable drivers, and with car adaptations, people who normally have to use a wheelchair to get around, can drive too

One eyed Jack · 03-03-2017 5:17pm

RoisinClare6 wrote: »

I have 2% vision in my right eye which also has a squint and I am allowed to drive

Yep!

(with the caveat that you can actually drive of course!

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Homer · 03-03-2017 5:18pm

My missus once asked me what the rumble strips were for as you approached certain roundabouts.. I told her they were so blind people would know they were approaching a roundabout.. worst part.. she believed me!

maudgonner · 03-03-2017 5:49pm

OSI wrote: »

Sure I remember watching a news story before on a lad in the UK missing both his legs, half an arm and an eye and still driving an M3 :eek:

Pfft! Bartosz Ostalowski is missing both arms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrnhWeeIYmY

Registered blind drivers! ?

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