Editor:
As a person who has just received a handicap decal (much to my dismay), I would like to clarify a comment made in a Star letter to the editor, Sept. 29. D. Atkinson writes that “Langley Township should be looking for people who keep the card in their glove box and then put it on the mirror, hoping no one sees them exit the vehicle.”
For everyone’s information, including the letter writer’s, the literature I received from SPARC BC (which issues the permits only with a doctor’s form) states on the last page of the parking program information that “You MUST remove the permit from the rear view mirror when you drive, as it is against the law to drive with the permit hanging (obstructed vision).:
Please know the facts of this great debate regarding the storage of the permit before you walk up to someone and hassle them about pulling it out of their glovebox, purse or whatever. People with these permits have a right to use them regardless of where they keep it. In actual fact, people who drive around with the permit dangling and obstructing their vision are breaking a motor vehicle law.
Makes me think that the majority of persons don’t read the rules they send out with the decal or, heaven forbid, they leave the decal hanging while driving because they will forget where they put it if they dare take it down.
Please get the proper information out there if you have the space before your front page contains a crazy road rage incident involving a misinformed person and a H permit holder. Thanks a lot. Have a great week, and keep up the good work.
M. Byers, Langley
