He had refused to surrender his licence despite failing an on-the-spot eye sight test three days earlier.
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Poor eye sight can also result in a person being unable to read the labels on medication and accidentally taking the wrong dose.
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"A dog's eye sight is very different to ours, but much of the problem is that dogs get caught up in the moment, " she said.
Despite growing up with a disorder that left his skin and hair pale, as well as his strength and eye sight weak, Torner has succeeded in making the best of his situation.
Professor Marshall now plans more studies in patients already suffering from AMD in one eye with the aim of saving the sight in their better eye for as long as possible.
Tony Watson, 69, is blind in one eye and wants the drug Lucentis to save the sight in his other eye.
Hernandez, who lost one eye and suffered major sight loss in the other, underwent cranial reconstruction surgery.
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But Tony Blair did just that when Michael Howard challenged him over alleged government delays to hospital treatment which could lead to eye patients losing their sight.
"I lost the sight in one eye and the other faded within six months, " he said.
He lost sight in one eye when he was 2 and spent much of his childhood in painful medical procedures and grueling chemotherapy.
Despite losing the sight in one eye after contracting yellow fever, he became a surgeon in his early 20s and sailed for Great Yarmouth with wounded sailors from the Battle of Camperdown in 1797.
Though a childhood accident all but robbed him of his sight in one eye, Bing played All-American basketball at Syracuse University and went on to become an NBA Hall of Famer as a point guard, mainly for the Detroit Pistons.
Goody has spoken about her own childhood, spent in a run-down part of Bermondsey, south-east London, being interrupted by having to help out her mother, who lost the use of her left arm and the sight in one eye after a motorcycle accident.
As Delashmit explained to the NPR reporter, he was losing sight in his right eye.
Eventually, when she was still in grammar school, she lost sight in her second eye.
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Network Rail has been criticised after a teenager lost the sight in his right eye when a railway detonator exploded.
"I lost sight in my left eye in 2007 and in 2010 the same thing began with my right eye, " said Mr Watson.
"It's a battle of wits, and he's going to lose, " said Lunsford, who lost most of the sight in his left eye in the attack.
Early fears that Massa may have lost some sight in his left eye as a result of the accident appear to have receded, but he will be replaced at the European Grand Prix in Valencia in three weeks time by Michael Schumacher.
Young people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis can lose their sight after developing uveitis (eye inflammation).
Ms. Gou, 21, was buried under rubble for about 10 hours after the 2008 quake and never regained sight out of her left eye.
The consultant, Sheraz Daya, spent more than a month testing the stability of his patient's vision before using laser technology to correct the sight in the apparently non-functioning eye.
Second Sight Medical Products developed the world's first working bionic eye, which could soon be available in the US, and fashion company Machina produced the world's first jacket to combine a MIDI controller with motion sensors -- essentially, it's a jacket that turns your body into a synthesizer.
The Ninth Circuit decision denying VSP tax-exempt status threatens to "divert to the federal treasury funds from the Sight for Students program, " depriving the poor kids and jeopardizing their eye care, the charities argue in a friend-of-the-court brief.
Medieval scholars were particularly fascinated by the science of optics and invented eye glasses partly as a result of their studies using lenses to determine the nature of light and the physics of sight.
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