Friday 2 July 2010

Advice for Drivers offering lifts to visually impaired people

When collecting visually impaired passengers, please go to the house and knock on the door. Then introduce yourself by name and state your purpose. Blind people have to be sure of their security.

If there is a need, you should guide visually impaired people to a vehicle by allowing them to take an arm. When they reach the vehicle, drivers should carefully open the door themselves. After this, you should offer to guide the hand of whoever is in their care to a safe part of the vehicle entrance. Please be sure to protect the head of your VI passenger as they enter the doorway. Following this, VIP may need assistance with seat belts.

When the vehicle reaches its destination, drivers must not allow people with sight problems to open vehicle doors themselves. They may accidentally open them into the path of moving traffic or pedestrians. The driver must do this himself, then help his passengers out of the vehicle and into the church building.

As you drive along, describe where you are and what you can see

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