arrybradbury
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| posted on 28/2/07 at 06:39 PM |
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Does she have a case?
My girlfriend just received a parking ticket through the post (£60 because she's at uni and hasn't had her post so 2 weeks has past). The
offence was for parking in a restricted area. BUT, this restricted area was a coned off area of her residents parking in the centre of town (roadworks
on a one way street) with no way of knowing where it started and where it ended apart from a few cones. She wouldn't have parked with a cone
between her and the car infront or behind and therefore feels rightly hard done by. Finally, the offence was commited at 8:53am so it is perfectly
possibly that either a worker or a drunken person moved a cone between when it was parked the previous night and the time the ticket was issued. So as
above, what are the chances of a successful appeal?
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ruskino80
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| posted on 28/2/07 at 06:59 PM |
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we had a similar ticket -parked the car (pay and diplay and only car on that stretch at the time)paid and left when we returned we were coned in one
on front of the car and several behind,work was bieng done on the street but not when we got there,two shops witnessed the cones being placed around
my car a half hour aftrer i arrived!!!.
after several letters and accounts from witnesses(yes to those extremes),i finally got a letter back sying something along the lines of 'on
this occasion we have decided to waive the penalty'
ah cheers for that you bunch of ****ing morons.
gather all the facts you can and copy all your letters to em.....
hth rich
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BenB
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| posted on 28/2/07 at 07:45 PM |
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I'd put in writing that someone might have moved the bollard. Moveable markers (without any additional signage explaining the exact nature of
the restricted area) is not sufficient to give the driver enough information to determine that the parking bay is suspended. If someone moves the
marker the driver has no way of knowing the bay is suspended. They can chose the bays suspended but if they don't adequately inform the driver
they can't give a parking ticket.
Most councils restrict parking but tie-wrap a sign to the lamp-posts nearby describing the restricted area. If they don't you can claim it
wasn't demarkated adequately and refuse to pay up....
A similar thing happens when councils give 1 day notice of a postponed residential parking bay and then ticket any vehicle that hasn't moved.
Appeals service considers that totally unfair practice....
[Edited on 28/2/07 by BenB]
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02GF74
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| posted on 1/3/07 at 08:11 AM |
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zero.
my experience is that parking fines are like the termintor, you cannot reason with them, you cannot plead with them ....
you can try wiriting etc. since it costs a stamp and some time but don't expect to be let off.
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smart51
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| posted on 1/3/07 at 08:18 AM |
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I've heard of people beeng booked for parking offences when double yellow lines have been painted after the car was parked. It seems they breed
a special type of moron for parking duties.
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arrybradbury
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| posted on 8/3/07 at 08:46 PM |
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She won the appeal 
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G.Man
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| posted on 8/3/07 at 09:23 PM |
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Result
Opinions are like backsides..
Everyone has one, nobody wants to hear it and only other peoples stink!
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