Parking Charge

[Kathyan]

Been out this morning and parked in Disabled bay but forgot to put my badge on display. Came back to a parking charge on the windscreen. On checking this, they have got my reg number wrong. What should I do?

[Peter Pedant]

Kathyan

I have done this and I commiserate

your tax disc should also show disabled
and so if a photo has been taken it is evidence that they put a ticket on a disabled's car

I was advised to try this but didnt - but you know you may have more oomph and time

I have also been videod twice but since I was hanging onto someone like James I on one of his courtiers - he couldnt stand up straight god I now the feeling .... so I passed that one

and good luck

I do this about once a year - and I cant say I think - oo yeah fair cop when I get done
I usually think - I am disabled and I can do better things with what little money I have.

[NoMercy]

There's doing wrong and there's making a simple error.

Penalties like that are for people who abuse disabled parking, not for disabled people who make mistakes.

[hc4361]

The rule is that the disabled badge must be displayed and the clock where appropriate.
This is to stop disabled badge holders parking without displaying their badge and hoping to get away with it whilst a friend/relative illegally uses the badge in another car.

I'm not for one minute suggesting that Kathyan would do anything so underhand but it does explain the need to display the badge.

[bhg481]

PP //your tax disc should also show disabled// but it doesn't prove that it was the disabled driver who parked it.

[murraymints]

The ticket is invalid anyway as the registration number was wrongly recorded ...

[ethandron]

If it was me, I'd write a letter explaining what happened and see what they say. If they enforce the parking charge then I would just pay up and learn from it.

[webbo3]

read this and appeal.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/parking-ticket-appeals


Dave.

[hc4361]

bhg, a blue badge can be used in any car so the tax disc does not always show 'disabled'.
Anyway, not all blue badge holders qualify for the 'disabled' tax disc

[phleb]

Contest it, I did, and they agreed that it was human error me forgetting to put mums badges on screen. Mum was going mad at me. They saw the badges and let me off..I think they felt sorry for me because mum was going ballistic lol

[EcclesCake]

Maybe I'm just too honest and honourable.

If I've made a mistake or chanced arm and been caught out and knew it, I would take the penalty.

Perhaps I'm just daft, but knowingly taking the P doesn't sit easily with me.

I make mistakes but don't expect them to be honoured and acknowledged by councils and companies in a favourable way......I suppose I could hope though!

[bhg481]

HC4361 - I think that's the point I'm making. A disabled tax disc proves nothing at all - it's the blue badge that the disabled driver carries that gives exemption from parking charges. I'm not disabled but I've used a blue badge in my car once when I took my disabled niece out for the day.

[Kathyan]

I have had a blue badge for 13 years now and this is the first time I have not displayed it. I am going to appeal. It makes me angry when people who are not disabled park in a disabled bay and get away with it! If the appeal fails then I will pay it.

[hc4361]

Kathyan, you are annoying me now. You cannot tell by looking whether a person is disabled or not. There are many hidden disabilities that entitle a person to a blue badge.

[paddywak]

Quite right hc I remember arguing with a guy who was abusing a young lady for parking in a disabled bay when she wasn't disabled 5years later she was in a wheel chair and eight years later she was dead and buried

[EcclesCake]

If I thought you had grounds for appeal I would support you too!!!!

[Kathyan]

hc, I know that, but when a lad gets out of his car (which is parked in the next bay to mine) and starts limping until his girlfriend says 'what you limping for, there's nowt wrong with you' and they both start laughing how would you feel if you were in my position?

[boxtops]

I'm with eccles on this one - you know you were in the wrong (by mistake), and you're hoping to get off on a technicality. I don't agree, you already said in your OP that it was your mistake. I too was brought up to not always wriggle out of responsibility. However - each to their own.

[sherrardk]

I suppose this is the same as not displaying your tax disc even if you have one - them's the rules.