New Use for your Tax Disc Holder. Medi Alert

[Offcut]

Found this on the AF site and well worth using. If you drive a car with the new no tax disc rules, use the holder to show your medical issues and treatment etc.

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[Bananas5]

Wonder what people used prior to tax disc?

Is this carried in a wallet, handbag, displayed in the car or covered up? Wouldn't want any passer bye to know David is taking powerful doses.of opiates.

It is bad enough disabled drivers can be identified on line without telling the world your scrpts.

Pat x

[Offcut in reply to Bananas5]

My Wife said the same when I printed it off.

That's why you cut it out and fold it over ( like a consatina) so only the attention side is showing in your tax disc holder and Emergency contact disc on the rear (inside) all the info is obscured. You could write in a lighter pencil as well. Do not think that fades in the sun? I would rather the emergency services know I have lung and heart conditions if I am unconscious and bleeding more than usual because I take Warfarin and 13 other scripts?

Be Well

[Bananas5 in reply to Offcut]

Not convinced!

Managed 30 years without one and with no other cars having them ot still draws attention to you.

Pat x

[Offcut in reply to Bananas5]

All down to personal choice.

[Hidden in reply to Bananas5]

Totally agree. No-one should be advertising their scripts. Or identifying themselves in this way. It's just another step away from integration.

Just wondering if an increase in car break-ins will happen because it could be thought powerful drugs could be in the car. Would they then need a sticker that says "no drugs left in this car" as well?

Seems pointless when there are systems in place that work well.

[earthwitch]

I'm not convinced - if you have the kind of medical condition you would need an alert for, you should have a medicalert pendant or bracelet - emergency services are much more likely to spot a medicalert than a faded home-printed thing on a smashed up windscreen. Besides, I'm not sure I'd want to be alerting the general public to the fact that I had medical problems. Imagine if you were in an accident, and the other person tried to make out that you shouldn't be driving because of medical conditions and it was all your fault.

[Offcut in reply to earthwitch]

I agree if the medical conditions says that you should not be driving then you should not be driving!

[Heorte]

wouldn't put personal info there, BUT if using a Blue Badge and not LOOKING disabled (eg claudication, heart problems etc) I might add a simple statement of condition.

Or how about "Don't judge whether I have a right to this parking space until you suffer from my condition!" LOL

[Offcut in reply to Heorte]

I have Heart , Lung and skeletal problems plus a few other things and a blue badge and I see people making uneducated assessments on me all the time. If they want to feel like me and take my 14 prescriptions a day and use my blue badge they can.