Today I got run over in Asda car park by somebody who deliberately rammed me out of the way in her car. She wrote off my wheelchair, bruised my buttock, and wedged the chair which I was sitting in between her car and the ground.
It took two people to unhook me and get me out of the chair into another one. The police came and charged her with careless driving…she’s got to do a driver awareness course and I’ve got to go to casualty to find out why it’s painful.
She is a blue badge holder and she jumped out of her car and ran around to me while I was wedged. I exclaimed…‘I’m calling the police’…she replied PLEASE DO! Then she walked at a very fast pace into Asda and left me there. She haunted back just as fast and got into her car.
The police came and it turned out the car is a motability car so she must get top rate DLA or PIP…for what?
The woman was driving a Motability car. That doesn’t mean it was her car. The blue badge may not have been hers either. The blue badge system is abused a lot. I don’t go a bundle on litigation but this is one occasion and I’d be looking for compensation for injuries sustained.
It WAS her blue badge, the police checked…I see no reason why she has one! It WAS her motobility car, the police checked that too…and I see no reason why she has it.
A&E saw me quickly. I got there before the pubs close…NI neurological damage but soft tissue damage. Musculoskeletal pain they say will get worse before it gets better but should resolve in a week or so.
I am going to claim personal injury. I wouldn’t if it was an accident but she deserves it.
Florence, I fully understand you feeling grieved etc, but how many times on here do we all talk about “invisible illnesses”? We know these badges and vehicles are not given out lightly. She wouldn’t have it if it wasn’t rightful.
Mind you, I can’t say the same about her driving licence! Hope you’re alright though. x
She must be on high rate DLA or PIP and has probably been fiddling it for years. She marched off OK…very spiritedly and quick. She is NOT disabled.
It amazes me how somebody who is fiddling DLA and gets a free car and blue badge mows somebody down in a car park and makes it obvious she is fiddling by stridently marching off. Asda entrance was quite a distance from her car and the speed she marched off at and then back again must be on CCTV.
Florence, I fully understand you feeling grieved etc, but how many times on here do we all talk about “invisible illnesses”? We know these badges and vehicles are not given out lightly. She wouldn’t have it if it wasn’t rightful.
Mind you, I can’t say the same about her driving licence! Hope you’re alright though. x
I know what you mean but the criteria for a blue badge is based on ability to walk a certain distance. She surpassed all expectations. She is an obvious nasty piece of work so I am reporting her…if the report goes nowhere fair enough, but I am very suspicious.
I expect the cctv footage will be examined by police to see if she is to be charged. I’m not sure if you’ll be allowed to have the footage Florence for Youtube, surely . It is the property of Asda and probably the police now, as evidence.
I don’t think the police are going to do anything further. I have informed my solicitor and want her to go for a peron injury claim.
They must have to cough up the CCTV for that surely.
I have calculated should get about £500…not much and it will all go to my solicitor. But, I don’t want money, I justice…so if a personal injury claim costs her she deserves it. I dont know how it works with motobility insurance for this sort of thing.
Done for careless driving and have to take a course…what does that do to the insurance?
I doubt she has been moved onto PIP. To get that component of mobility you have to be virutally house bound. One of my friends got NO points for mobility on her health assessment yet she struggles everyday to walk with her stick and i know she is genuine. She had letters from physio etc to support it. They said she could plan a journey, and walk more then so many metres etc.
She could genuinely be disabled Florence even with MS and was having one of her better days physically but perhaps mentally she wasnt in the best frame of mind.
I know people with motibility car who drive to europe when they are not relapsing, yet when they are relapsing can barely get out of bed.
So she may be someone with RRMS who has good and bad days, sadly you met her on her worse.