A man who parked in a disabled parking space with his disabled parents and used their Blue Badge has been fined £60 - which will rise to £120 if he doesn't pay. Philip Hodgson took his 84-year-old stepmother, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease, and his 87-year-old father, who has a degenerative eye disease to a restaurant in Whitley Bay.
Philip used his stepmother's Blue Badge to park next to the restaurant entrance and says he did not believe he needed to pay as disabled bays are usually free to use. But two weeks after the trip he received a parking fine from HX Car Park Management Ltd, reports ChronicleLive.
Philip said: "I think it's wrong. I think it's so unusual for a company to charge for disabled parking. Normally with disabled parking you get it for free. Do they not welcome people who are disabled or encourage disabled people to come?"
