As in the Gene Wilder/Richard Prior film. The one where Wilder drives the car, even though he's blind. Well talk about life imitating art.....

A blind man, who lost his eyes in a bomb blast, has been convicted of dangerous driving after police spotted his car on the wrong side of the road.
and

Pc Edge said: "I asked him if he could see me. He removed the dark-coloured sunglasses he was wearing and I could clearly see he was blind as he had no eyes."
Blind man driving!

Ruth is surely stranger than Richard....