LAST week, I went to Accrington bus station to catch the bus home. When I got to the shelter, a disabled man was struggling in his wheelchair in the pathetically narrow shelter. It was cold and raining.

After almost 25 minutes, a bus arrived, but couldn't get to the shelter because a Rossendale bus was stopped there.

I told the man that I would tell the driver to pull over to the shelter so he could get on. The driver simply shrugged and said: "What can I do?" Another man approached the bus and got the same reply, as did the disabled man when he attracted the driver's attention.

So because the driver couldn't be bothered to spend a couple of minutes pulling over to the shelter, the disabled man was left behind cold and wet with his frozen food shopping melting.

What is the point of spending thousands of pounds making bus easy access for the disabled when they are treated so shabbily by bus drivers when they try to use them. Hyndburn Council should hang its head in shame at turning half the bus station into a car park and fobbing us off with such pathetic and virtually-useless shelters.

MICHAEL BERRY, Church Street, Great Harwood.