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THREE SOUTH AFRICAN STUDIES ON THE RELATION BETWEEN ROAD ACCIDENTS AND DRIVERS‘ VISION
Author(s) -
Humphries Deryck
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
ophthalmic and physiological optics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.147
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1475-1313
pISSN - 0275-5408
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1313.1987.tb00994.x
Subject(s) - optometry , relation (database) , poison control , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , geography , medical emergency , medicine , computer science , data mining
Abstracl —This report describes three studies of drivers' vision which have recently been carried out in South Africa. In the first, it was found that younger myopes constituted a substantial fraction of those drivers who failed to reach the acuity standards required for a South African driving licence: the acuity of almost all these drivers could be raised to an adequate standard by a proper refractive correction. In the second study, a comparison of the visual characteristics of a group of drivers who had been involved in accidents with those of a control group of accident‐free drivers suggested that the former had mean acuities and depth perception which were worse than those of the accident‐free group by small but statistically significant amounts. A third study, comparing the visual acuities of a group of randomly selected drivers with those of a group who had been involved in road accidents, showed that a higher proportion of the accident group had acuities which were below that required by the licensing authority.