SIR – I write with regard to your front page story (Worcester News, September 16) about the disgusting treatment handed out to 16-year-old Sophie King by a bus driver.

I am registered as blind, but fortunately do have sufficient sight to see an approaching bus, although I cannot discern the number or destination of that bus.

If young Sophie had been my daughter, I would have tried to ascertain the bus driver’s name and licence number and have him disciplined, if not removed from his post.

The primary responsibility of someone in his position is surely the safety of his passengers, and this vulnerable young girl was, potentially, a passenger.

If he had an empty seat on that bus, he should have let her on.

Now if I had been on that bus and had become aware of the situation, I would have gladly given up my own seat and paid her fare.

This whole situation regarding vulnerable passengers and bus passes is absolutely ridiculous.

It is penny-pinching in the extreme and, to be perfectly honest, something needs to be done about it.

Perhaps we could get some feedback from other vulnerable passengers of this particular, so-called bus service.

NICK MOORE

Worcester