Welcome to Lightmare ......
Our organisation has been formed to fight the growing road safety issue of blinding lights which diminish a driver's ability to perceive hazards
putting more vulnerable less conspicuous road users at risk and blinding oncoming drivers.
It is a tragedy, that the exponentially declining rate of fatalities
in the UK and EU has been broken since blinding lights were
mandated in 2011.
Touch screens were introduced about the same time and may be equally to blame.
(see
Touchscreen
dashboards have finally taken over and ruined driving Telegraph James Foxall)
Thousands of vehicle designers, road
safety officers and highway engineers are continually
working across the world to increase road safety, yet
fatalities have risen in the UK and USA and not fallen as expected in the EU.
LED lamps have not been certified despite
causing
retinal eye damage
(2)
The UK DfT, USA's NHTSA and the EU CARE statistics departments
have
NO ANSWER
why accidents have ceased to decline as
expected and are conveniently presenting data to
ministers only for the past 5 or 10 years,
omitting the 2010/11 deviation.
Why are the authorities and motor manufacturers ignoring
this tragic problem?
The reason is
that their "experts" have failed to consult
qualified ophthalmological
opinion.
It is now untenable for them to admit they have made a
deadly mistake.
On the following pages we document the growing body of:-
Expert ophthalmological opinion,
Legal opinion and Media coverage
saying blinding lights are a danger.
Thousands of drivers have complained and signed
petitions, our
2015 petition attracted 4683 comments many from doctors.
Please consider commenting or signing the current
Softlights Foundation Petition (68,341 signatories Jan 2025)
It is a tragedy, that the exponentially declining rate of fatalities in the UK and EU has been broken since blinding lights were mandated in 2011.
Touch screens were introduced about the same time and may be equally to blame.
(see Touchscreen dashboards have finally taken over and ruined driving Telegraph James Foxall)
The UK DfT, USA's NHTSA and the EU CARE statistics departments have NO ANSWER why accidents have ceased to decline as expected and are conveniently presenting data to ministers only for the past 5 or 10 years, omitting the 2010/11 deviation.
Why are the authorities and motor manufacturers ignoring this tragic problem?
The reason is that their "experts" have failed to consult qualified ophthalmological opinion.
It is now untenable for them to admit they have made a deadly mistake.
On the following pages we document the growing body of:-
Expert ophthalmological opinion, Legal opinion and Media coverage saying blinding lights are a danger.
Thousands of drivers have complained and signed petitions, our 2015 petition attracted 4683 comments many from doctors. Please consider commenting or signing the current Softlights Foundation Petition (68,341 signatories Jan 2025)
