A DROITWICH mum has made a plea to supermarket shoppers over using parent and baby spaces in car parks
The mum of a newborn shamed shoppers without children using the parent and child parking spaces at Lidl on Kidderminster Road.
However, not everyone agreed with her police request and a row erupted on Spotted Droitwich.
She said: "A small change of personal laziness that would make a huge difference to the parents/grandparents of Droitwich.
"This is a polite request to people shopping at Lidl.
"Can you only park in parent and child spaces if you actually have a child with you?
"Highly doubt the same ignorant people would park in a disabled space, but don’t see why people think it’s perfectly acceptable to do so without even pretending to have a child?
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"I couldn’t park in one today with my newborn son which wasn’t the end of the world, but the whole purpose is to be able to open the door wide enough to get a baby or child out of the car seat.
"A small change of personal laziness that would make a huge difference to the parents/grandparents of Droitwich!"
Despite the polite plea, social media users didn't shy away from airing their opinion.
One commenter said: "Some people who use parent and child spaces are using them due to no disabled spaces being available (Some businesses actually suggest this) also don't forget Some people have hidden disabilities.
"I use them as they are normally closer to the entrance than the disabled spaces so with mobility issues I have no choice.
Another said: "I like parking in parent and child spaces in my big Range Rover as I’ve got more room to open the door to get out.
"It’s usually only me that drives it but if I have passengers I’d use 2 spaces and park in the middle."
Someone else chimed in and said: "Worse is when a parent with a child uses parent and child parking…. And the child is about 13 years old….!!"
A lot of people in the comments said they think disabled parking spaces should be right at the front of most supermarkets while others defended the layout and said it stops children from getting run over.
A Facebook user tries to water down the debate by saying: "Little known fact, a disabled person can park in a parent-child bay AS long as all the disability bays are full at the time of parking."
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