[AnotherUnixGeek]

Wow, an unfriendly lawyer and all.....I wish Novak well in his recovery and hope the docs can fix him up soon.

I wish Novak well also, but the lawyer did exactly the right thing - he detained a hit-and-run driver for the police. Expecting witnesses to be friendly to a hit-and-run driver isn't reasonable. I'd also wish the pedestrian well.

Any driver has a responsibility to make sure he's capable of driving. Most people notice almost complete loss of vision on their left side. If anything, this is evidence of the need for frequent eye-tests of senior drivers.

[skeeter]

Expecting witnesses to be friendly to a hit-and-run driver isn't reasonable.

Friendly, no. Objective, yes.

What isn't reasonable is to expect a lawyer to pass on a potential client.

[thulldud]

Most people notice almost complete loss of vision on their left side.

The complete loss of left-side vision happened since this incident. It was peripheral vision that he had lost, and the onset was gradual enough that he didn't notice.

The vision system is more than just a pair of eyeball cameras. The brain does a considerable amount of image processing as well. When it merges the images from the two eyes, small blind spots (dead pixels?) in one can be filled in with information from the other. That works well enough for things that both eyballs can see, but that was not the situation here.

If anything, this is evidence of the need for frequent eye-tests of senior drivers.

The DMV in my state only checks you once every 10 years. What good is that? I go to my eye doctor every 2 as it is. But even that would not help with a tumor or abscess that ate up my peripheral vision over a period of, say, 6 months.

(Guess I'll just check it meself. Yup, so far, so good.)