A FORMER police special constable who had his leg amputated after a crash showed his prosthetic leg when challenged over parking in a disabled bay.

Ben Perry laughed as he rolled up his trouser leg to show men in a van his prosthetic leg after they challenged him over his right to park in the bay.

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Mr Perry shared a video of the incident on Twitter on Tuesday, describing the exchange.

 

 

In the Tweet he said he was challenged by a man who said: “Oi, that’s a disabled space, you can’t park there.”

“Why not? I’m disabled," Mr Perry replied.

“Where’s your blue badge?” said the man.

Mr Perry then said he pointed at his leg and said: “Look, I’ve got one leg!”

The response from the man, he wrote, was: “Oh okay then.”

We have previously reported how the Good Samaritan and off-duty Droitwich special constable pulled over on the M42 to help another driver following an accident when Khadeja Perwez ploughed into him.

The 25-year-old, of Avon Close, Worcester, admitted careless driving and driving with defective tyres at Worcester Crown Court in March 2019 following the crash on the M42 near Bromsgrove on March 9, 2018.

His injuries forced him to resign as West Mercia special constable.

Perwez had been driving at excessive speed for the wet road conditions - around 70mph - despite illuminated warnings that drivers should reduce their speed to 50mph.

The driver of an Audi TT had already crashed, aquaplaning into the central reservation and ended up facing the wrong way in the fast lane before driving onto the hard shoulder.

Mr Perry, a qualified lighting engineer, special constable and police community support officer, stopped to help, putting on a fluorescent yellow jacket and placing an orange flashing beacon on the roof of his Ford Focus.

He was standing by the boot when he was struck by Perwez who aquaplaned into him in her BMW.

What remained of his right leg was amputated below the knee and he had to have several debridement operations to shorten the stump.

He spent 23 weeks in hospital, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch and is permanently disabled.

Judge Jim Tindal described the road conditions as ‘awful’ but said Perwez had been ‘very careless indeed’ and her tyres were not in the condition they should have been.

He fined her £1,000 from her £17,000 savings and banned her from driving for nine months. She will not have to complete an extended driving retest.