We receive hundreds of complaints a year about blinding vehicle lights - a few recent ones are listed here
Therefore we have made representations to Government Ministers to ban or reduce the eye-damaging intensity of DRL and Xenon-HID lamps:-

Government / department

Addressee

DaDRL letters

Responses

Department Transport

Great Minster House

76 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DR

Mike Penning MP Under Secretary of State for Transport

Norman Baker MP Under Secretary of State for Transport

Peter O’Reilly      Head of Branch

Adrian Burrows adrian.burrows@dtlr.gsi.gov.uk  Senior Technology Engineer

DaDRL+BiXenon letter to Mike Penning 25 October 2010

DaDRL letter to Norman Baker 08 September 2010

DaDRL letter to Norman Baker 20 August 2010

Dft Letters  All letters to 29 March 2005

Dft and Beckett letter 02 Nov 2005

Fran Simpson Dft reply 28 October  2010

Mike Penning 15 September 2010

Dft general response letters

Dft positive response 10 Nov 05

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Office of Vice President and Commissioner for Transport

Rue de la Loi 200

B-1049 Brussel Belgium

Guenter Verheugen

Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry

European Commission and Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry letters  June 2009 showing DRL KILL

Netherlands Research Institute SWOV
Duindoorn 32,
P.O. Box 1090
2260 BB Leidschendam
Netherlands
 

Professor Fred Wegman Managing Director

SWOV letter June 2009 - flawed research claims misleading MEP's to vote for DRL

United Nations
Palais des Nations,
1211Geneva 10
Switzerland

 Marcin A. Gorzkowski Chairman of Working Party on Lighting and Light-Signalling (GRE WP29)

Joint Letter with Verheugen June 2009

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Office of Vice President and Commissioner for Transport

BREY 09/161

Rue de la Loi 200

B-1049 Brussel Belgium

Jacques Barrot

Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Transport

European Vice President and Commissioner for Transport letters

Jaques Barrot  12 May 05

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Office of Commissioner for Energy

BREY 09/161

Rue de la Loi 200

B-1049 Brussel Belgium

Andris Piebalgs       Commissioner for Energy

European Commissioner for Energy letters

DaDRL Response 30 November 2005

Andris Piebalgs 15 November 2005

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Office of Commissioner Transport

BREY 09/161

Rue de la Loi 200

B-1049 Brussel Belgium

Willy Maes

John Berry

Gert-Jan Koopman

EU letters to 03 Feb 03

EU response letters to 2003

President George W. Bush

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,

Washington DC  USA

President George W. Bush

President George W Bush 03 Feb 03

No response

The Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury

10 Downing Street

London

SW1A 2AA

Prime Minister Anthony Blair

Prime Minister letter 31 Mar 05

Prime Minister letter 03 Feb 03

Acknowledged 18 April,

(Answered by Dft - see below)

Secretary of State for Transport

Department for Transport,

Eland House,

Bressenden Place,

LONDON SW1E 5DU

Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP

alistair.darling@dft.gsi.gov.uk

Minister of Transport letters

See below