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They must be bats!

9th January 1982, Page 18
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BLIND MAN'S buff seems to be popular game among South African drivers and helps to explain the country's alarming accident record..A survey by thr Council for Scientific and Industrial Research discovered bus driver whose cataracts caused him to be blinded by headlights, a school-bus driver with less than 50 per cent visior and a lorry driver whose range of clear vision was only a foot.

Some 50,000 drivers could nr see clearly beyond the bonnets of their vehicles and another quarter of a million were said tc be not much better. Perhaps in time they will develop the bat's compensatory echo-sounding system of guidance.

Meanwhile, sharp eyes and skill brought 14,212 London Transport drivers and conductors awards from the Road Operators' Safety Counci in 1980, Five bus drivers had each clocked up 34 years of saf driving and 212 won awards fo 25 or more blameless years.


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