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National guidelines do not adequately define which vision impairments should, and should not, be considered for a drivers licence, an inquest into the death of a South Australian grandfather hears.
A vision-impaired driver who hit and killed a cyclist in South Australia's north could not have seen all of the road without physically turning his head, an inquest has heard, as dashcam footage of the incident was played to the court.
The coronial inquest hears John Charles Robertson had to physically move his head to the left while driving to make up for a complete lack of peripheral vision and had been criticised by driving assessors as going too fast through intersections.