SIR: Concerning the correspondence in Viewpoint on keeping to the badge rules, where disabled drivers are concerned.

I refer to the article (BEN: September 12) from Mrs K Adshead, stating that disabled drivers are not displaying the orange badge correctly and that wardens should dish out fines to us.

I should be grateful if Mrs Adshead could point out where it states that one should show the actual photograph of the disabled person. The leaflet dated January '96 given with my orange badge states in Paragraph 10 'You must display the badge on the dashboard or fascia panel of a vehicle with the front facing forwards, so that the relevant details are legible from outside of the vehicle when using the parking benefits'. If it were the case that the photograph had to be on display, why was the badge designed to be folded?

Nowhere does it state that the photograph of the disabled person must be on display unless new rules have been set since July, 1996. Before the new orange badge scheme was introduced, the Disabled Drivers Association were assured by the Department of Transport that for the safety of the individual, the photograph would not have to be on display. The photograph was only to confirm that, if questioned, it was the disabled person using the facility.

A disabled driver,

Westhoughton.

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