Parking in disabled spaces when disabled person sitting in car

[Mokel]

If the blue badge holder isn’t going to leave the car, the car shouldn’t be parked in a disabled bay.

The purpose behind disabled bays is for disabled people don’t have to walk far to entrances to shops, doctors etc. If not leaving the car, there’s no need to park up there.

If a non disabled person is going to leave the car leaving the disabled person in the car, they should be parking in a normal parking space.

Where does it say you have to get out of the car? The link you gave seemed to suggest it needs to be ONE of THREE options. That's different to your interpretation

Blue Badge spaces are not for the disabled person to sit in whilst an able-bodied person nips into a shop. If you do this you can be fined.

Highly unlikely to happen though.

@LiterallyOnFire Both are a complete pain in the rear.

@WonderingAboutThings From above link:

If you misuse your badge on purpose you could be fined up to £1000, for example if you:

1. give it to someone else to use
2. keep using your badge when you no longer need it
3. use your badge to park if you’re just waiting, and don't plan to leave your car

If someone else is driving you, you must let them know the rules - if they don’t follow them the council can take your badge away.

Most people know exactly what the rules are, obey them or the spirit of them, if not everyone exactly to the letter. The rest of us generally get there can be reasons why someone isn't being religious about them, because actually most of us are very aware of others having needs too.

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If you break the rules
You can still get a parking fine when you're using your badge.
If you misuse your badge on purpose you could be fined up to £1000, for example if you:

1. give it to someone else to use
2. keep using your badge when you no longer need it
3. use your badge to park if you’re just waiting, and don't plan to leave your car

use your badge to park if you’re just waiting, and don't plan to leave your car

It would have to be proven that you set off with that intention, I would have thought. And who is enforcing these rules anyway? Only once in all my years of being a BB holder has a traffic warden asked to see it, and they did not even check to see if the picture was my likeness. They just looked at the date.

I sit and wait for my husband who's got the disabled badge. Disabled people are allowed out of the bloody car you know ffs.
Wind your neck in.

But you shouldn't be sitting in a disabled bay. It's very clear in the rules you get with the badge. You should park in a regular space then drive to meet him

You're part of the problem

Tbf the poster may not even be able to drive. Her Husband is not using his badge incorrectly, as he has got out of the car! He is the one with the BB.

It could be the driver who’s disabled though. When my uncle was terminally ill he got one because aunt didn’t drive and while he looked okay, often had dizzy spells.

The examples in your last paragraph are hardly comparable with someone taking a parking spot.

They might be waiting for someone who is disabled

But her husband is the one with the blue badge, she’s using the space for him to get in the car - that is totally fine to do.

This

When I needed a BB (before lots of major ortho surgery) - it was impossible for me to access shops /appts WITHOUT a Blue badge space.

Used to infuriate me when people literally ran from empty cars where they'd shoved a BB up in.

I've had to go home and call surgeries etc to cancel imminent appts as I can't get close enough.

People who use spaces illegally are vile

Friend’s former neighbours opposite. The man was disabled. Wife was not.

Every single time she saw their car parked in the various car parks across the town. It was always parked in a disabled bay and he was always sitting in the car. Whilst wife did the getting out the car and did the errands etc. Their car was a distinctive colour so easy to spot.

Friend’s job is shopping and other things for elderly and disabled people. Some of them are just about able to visit the shops etc. if they have a BB, she would parked in a disabled bay. 95% the time she can find a disabled bay. The few times she could not get a bay because people like her neighbours parked in them. With the disabled person in the car.

Earlier this year, the wife died unexpectedly and the husband had to go into a care home as he could not do much at all bar the driving

Though 5 years old, a town did a check on BB and found 20 of them were used incorrectly. Such as named person on BB has died. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/20-blue-badges-stripped-people-16748761

Probably been more recent checks in towns but this what I found when googling

"But you shouldn't be sitting in a disabled bay. It's very clear in the rules you get with the badge. You should park in a regular space then drive to meet him

You're part of the problem"

As long as he is getting into the car in that BB space, it is legal.

Another thread showing the worst of MN. Jealousy that disabled people have something you want and how very dare they get what you perceive as a perk. Dressed up as hair splitting over the rules. Faux concern that the lazy rule breaking disabled parkers might stop a more seriously disabled person parking.
Thinking there should be a hierarchy which you can judge by eye.
Have the honesty to say that you think less of disabled people, they should not get anything non disabled people get and most are exaggerating or faking it anyway.

Source? Hardly fair to prevent another disabled person who needs the space more, from parking.

"Source? Hardly fair to prevent another disabled person who needs the space more, from parking."

There is nothing in the BB rules about the non BB holder waiting in the car. The BB holder is out of the car and will be getting back in at that spot. There is also no hierarchy of need in the BB rules.

But as a disabled person, it states you need to leave the car. Why would it be ok for their non disabled companion to stay in the car?

Its nothing to do with hierarchy of disability - you're preventing someone who needs the space from using it

There being no rules about the non disabled companion leaving the car doesn't mean they shouldn't

The non disabled car user is irrelevant to blue badge rules. The BB user may not need them to be with them out of the car. No one is forced to have someone with them at all times when they don't want that.

We don't force all car users out of the car in regular spaces.

There's far more of them though. I don't remember having to drive around for a standard space. The same can't be said for a BB space

Blue Badge rules

"It must only be displayed if you are travelling in the vehicle as a driver or passenger, or if someone is collecting you or dropping you off and needs to park at the place where you are being collected or dropped."

Agree with you, that's what I put all this down to.

Pure jealousy