Bloody parking ticket!!

[Aadam]

No help but small world. I'm driving up to Ilkley in a couple of weeks. Good luck getting it overturned, I don't think you can do much.

 

[Aadam]

write saying you mis-read the sign and you will know better in future. I've done this in Brighton before and been let off.

##With due respect to you I think that is the worst possible advice. That is an admission of guilt and if your letter is rejected you will have to pay the fine. My advice would be to ignore it until they write to you as the owner of the car then write to the council stating that you do not own a Citroen reg no ............ and then stick with it and insist on the matter being heard by a tribunal if they still maintain you should pay. You cannot possibly be responsible for a vehicle that you do not own and possibly does not exist. It could quite easily be a stolen car with false number plates how can you be expected to know.

That sounds a little fraudulent to me. Plus, they will have photo's of the car, clearly showing it as a Renault. I'm not sure filing the model of car incorrectly is a valid 'get out' clause. I could be wrong though.

 

[grubbyhands]

Do you know whether the ticket was issued by a traffic warden or was the vehicle seen by a static fixed camera. The reason I ask is that I was "filmed" by a fixed camera whilst parked with my nearside wheels on a pavement in Richmond, Surrey. I appealed to the appropriate department at the local council ,apologising for my stupid error and pointing out that at least 6 other cars were similarly parked AND that I was a country bumpkin and not familiar with the "Big City"(Godalming being semi-rural ) but they replied saying that Ignorance of the Highway Code was no defence so pay the £40.00 fine within 14 days or it would double to £80.00 Reluctantly I paid the fine.
Imagine my delight when some 8 or so weeks later the turds wrote to me saying that the calibration certificate for said camera was out of date and therefore they were re-imbursing me. Should I have asked for interest on the money I paid?

 

[DanielT]

Every time I've appealed against a parking ticket...

Other people's bad parking, not mine, btw.

Were these just random people whose tickets you appealed?

 

[LadySeagull]

I got a ticket two weeks ago because although I although I had scratched off the correct day and date on a visitors permit supplied by a customer I did not have a pen to write the registation in the box on the ticket. Went inside to get a pen and got into a conversation with the customer and came back out ten minutes later to fill the reg in on the permit and a ticket was on my windscreen. The permit was on the dash for the warden to see. Have appealed but I,ll be surprised if I get off. Strictly an invalid ticket but a bit harsh IMO.

Was this you on pepipoo? I recall the thread:

PCN for not writing vehicle registration on visitor permit - FightBack Forums

Like most Council PCNs, you need to have the courage of your convictions as you should win in the end. Most people do win who go as far as adjudiction, that's why Councils dangle the carrot of the discounted penalty (bribe) when they routinely reject an early appeal.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Were these just random people whose tickets you appealed?

They were drivers who work for the organisation I manage.

 

[LadySeagull]

Incorrect make, model or colour are not essential, and the ticket is not invalidated by getting this bit wrong.

Your best bet is to go to PePiPoo: Helping the motorist to get justice and post up your ticket on the Council Tickets forum and let them see if there are any other mistakes that would make the ticket invalid.

Sound advice as ever. The OP should get over to pepipoo with close-up pictures of the PCN (both sides) and a GoogleStreetView link to where the car was parked. Put the photos into a new thread and you will soon have some good expert advice.

 

[Woodchip]

Clearly not you. Your car must have been cloned. Simples!

 

[Questions]

Was this you on pepipoo? I recall the thread:

PCN for not writing vehicle registration on visitor permit - FightBack Forums

Like most Council PCNs, you need to have the courage of your convictions as you should win in the end. Most people do win who go as far as adjudiction, that's why Councils dangle the carrot of the discounted penalty (bribe) when they routinely reject an early appeal.

No wasn't,t me but I have appealed.

 

[sparkie]

This seems like a decent thread title.

This morning I got a parking ticket at 05:17 on a back street.

Bang to rights - I just guessed the parking police would have been asleep. Lol.

Well done, the non-"work shy" enforcer certainly earned their overtime.