Uber bosses are working with police to identify a driver a student claims left her injured in the street after hitting her with his car. Laura Murphy, 22, says she is 'traumatised' following the incident in Manchester city centre last weekend.
26.04.2022 - 20:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A driver has been branded an 'entitled t**t' after parking over TWO parent and child bays.
It's not clear whether the owner of the car had any children at all, but their Ford Focus was taking up the two wide spaces inside the multi-storey car park near Asda in Wythenshawe on Saturday at around 10am.
Dad Tom, 43, took a picture of the grey vehicle and shared it on Facebook with the caption 'no comment'.
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"It didn’t really bother me as the car park was empty, but it's just to show how selfish some people are," the Wythenshawe dad-of-two told the Manchester Evening News.
Others commented on his post mocking the 'disgusting' parking and branding the driver 'selfish' and 'an entitled t**t'.
"Yeah I saw this car too, disgusting no regard for others," said one, while another added: "They should have been issued with a ticket make them think before they do it next time."
It's not the first time the misuse of parent and child parking bays has angered shoppers.
Earlier this month we reported how one mum was raging when she saw a tiny motorbike taking up one of the bays in the car park of her local Aldi.
Her photo of the bike has now sparked a social media row, and people are divided.
Seething at the man's selfish actions, the mum posted a photo of the offending bike on social media. While many shared her frustration, others insisted there were bigger problems to worry about in the world.
Unless signage says otherwise, parents are free to use the bays if they are accompanied by a child aged under 12 or in a car or booster seat. Pregnant women using the spaces is considered a grey area because the signs specifically refer to
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