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    wallydown wrote:
    Was Charlie wrote:
    Wallydown said:
    "i took a person to visit someone at dorchester prison last week .had to hang about for the return ,up bowls a van with a poole garages name on the side, a typical chav woman parked it on a double yellow stuck a disabled badge in the screen and sprinted to to prison entrance 200 metres away - parking around the town most days of the week i see an infringement at least every other day and on a saturday its a constant stream of badge scammers . I have no problem with genuine people but if you are sufficiently disabled to need a badge why would you buy a ferrari, plenty of those around here?"
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    Yes there are some who abuse badges by using someone else's. If caught the genuine badge holder will lose it - very selfish and uncaring of the person using it illegally.
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    Wy shouldn't someone with mobility problems have a Ferrari? They're disabled walkers, not disabled drivers.
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    And if you think it's easy to get a blue badge, try getting one and let us know how you get on.
    Im guessing you have never tried to get into or out of a car thats a few inches off the ground?
    Most of Westbourne is now disabled parking only. Surely non disabled are now being discriminated against. From what I have seen, most blue badge walkers manage to walk very easily and if you are fit enough to drive a Ferrari and can slide in and in out a few inches off the ground you can hardly be disabled!"
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Updated: 91-year-old suffers serious injury in mobility scooter crash

8:00am Wednesday 20th June 2012 in News By Stephen Bailey

The crash scene yesterday The crash scene yesterday

A 91-YEAR-OLD man was seriously injured after his mobility scooter was in a collision with an oncoming van.

Dorset Police said he suffered “possibly life changing injuries” to his head, hand and pelvis in Ferndown yesterday.

The scooter driver, who was from Ferndown, was injured in a layby at around noon on the A348 Ringwood Road by the Church Road junction.

Jayne Dimpsey, 46, from nearby St Mary’s veterinary surgery, said: “I heard what sounded like a vehicle braking.

“I turned round and saw the chap in the road.

“He had a big bump on his head and the backs of his hands had been scraped. I just said, ‘Don’t move’.

“He said that he was on the pavement and his wheel went off the kerb.

“The van driver was on his phone to the paramedics. The wheelchair was on its side.”

The scooter was heading towards Ferndown centre. The Vauxhall Vivaro was driven by a 53-year-old Poole man.

Traffic police examined the scene and chalked out two blood stains on the ground and a scrape on the kerb.

The scooter stood apparently undamaged in the layby, just south of the junction, and was wheeled away for checks.

Janet Bourne, 68, a retired manager of a women’s refuge, said: “I saw the gentleman lying on his back by the kerb.

“He seemed to be unconscious. There were lots of |people around him and an ambulance.”

Barry Russell, 38, a Ferndown council worker from Bournemouth, said: “I saw what looked like a pillow with a lot of blood on it.

“The man was absolutely still. He had an oxygen mask on.”

Sgt Rhys Griffiths said at the scene: “It’s a serious road traffic collision.”

South West Ambulance Service said it took the victim to Poole Hospital.

Police closed off the westbound carriageway and the road was reopened around 4pm.

The van was also taken away for further investigation.

Witnesses to the incident are asked to call PC 1936 Rogers on 101.

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