I felt I must write regarding the dreadful situation with disabled parking bays at supermarkets.

I frequently find they are full of vehicles not displaying the official blue badge which would enable the vehicle to be parked there legitimately.

Last Saturday I saw a car drive into a disabled bay at a Sainsbury's.

The driver looked very carefully at the sign clearly stating that this space was reserved for disabled drivers and then promptly swung into it. He and a young woman then got smartly out of the car and proceeded to walk very quickly (clearly not disabled) into the store.

When I approached them and pointed out that, as they were obviously not disabled, they should not be parked there, I received a tirade of verbal abuse.

(By the way, after working 20 years in accident and emergency departments, the names this person called me were tantamount to words of endearment in comparison to what my colleagues and myself were called then.)

I complained to the store manager about the abuse of disabled bays and she said she would ask someone to put notices on the offending vehicles but she also said, "it is always happening and they usually take them off and throw them at us".

What a selfish, ignorant way to behave. Do these ignoramuses not realise that if they park in these bays some genuinely disabled person will most likely have to park a long way away and endure a difficult, often painful, walk to the store?

Come on, all you drivers lucky enough not to be disabled, leave these spaces for those who need them.

Remember the Highway Code Rule 216: You must not park in parking spaces reserved for specific users, such as orange (blue)badge holders or residents, unless entitled to do so. It is also the law - RTRA sections 5 & 8.

-Sylvia Harwood, Hove