I appreciate the sentiments of Sylvia Harwood (Letters, April 22) but if disabled badge holders wish others to stick to the parking rules they should do so themselves.

I am the mother of a small child.

I admit that I frequently park in the disabled bays at supermarkets because the mother and child spaces are full of cars displaying disabled badges.

I do not mind parking further away from the store but I need the extra space either side of the parking area to be able to get my baby out of the car seat.

I have also waited to pull in to a mother and baby space at Tesco in Shoreham and been cut up by a disabled badge holder. When challenged, he told me he could park where he liked. I work in a profession where verbal abuse is not uncommon but I will not tolerate it in front of a child.

Disabled drivers are lucky that stores put notices on cars not legitimately parked in the disabled bays, they just ignore the ones in the mother and baby bays.

-Paula Bristow, Ovingdean