Parking Tickets!!!!

[LauraJ]

Last week I was issued with a parking ticket, I was 7 minutes late but the Traffic Warden filled the ticket out stating that I had a Winnebago when in actual fact I own a Vauxhall Astra. Can I appeal against this?

[Grunty]

Now that I know what a Winnebago is, it would be worth a letter to the ticket office.  It is not much use claiming that there is a loophole, but it does seem possible that it was placed on the wrong vehicle.

The fact that the warden has made a mistake is not in itself particularly serious.  If the ticket is not paid or excused, the case goes to court.  The ticket will be irrelevant and the court will not be told that it existed.  This is to be fair to the driver so the case is heard the same as any other parking offence where a ticket had not been issued.

[butter1]

I think you can definitely get away without paying this.  The ticket is void if ALL information is incorrect!!  Well done I say, I was given a parking ticket once because my ticket was on the dash board and not stuck to the glass window...how pathetic!

[butter1]

sorry, I meant if ANY information is incorrect.

[Octavius]

On a side note, someone I knew got caught speeding, got all the details and the photo and appealed.  When they went into the court/appeal room they were asked upon what basis they wished to appeal.

They said that the photo shows that his car was being towed by an AA van at the time.  They were let off!

[Jackson74]

Details on a parking ticket have to be 100% correct, if any details are wrong, this tickets becomes void.  I got off a fine when the parking attendant misread my reg plate by one letter.  Remember, you do not own a Winnebago.

[pezza.......]

I would say you should appeal.  I got a parking ticket when the rear wheel of my vehicle was outside of a marked pay and display bay.  I was displaying a ticket.

 

The ticket stated that I was parked on a road that has no parking allowed.  I queried it on the basis of that if there was no parking allowed on the street, why was there a bay with a pay machine there. 

The warden obviously pressed the wrong button and should have pressed the parking outside of a bay button, but didnt.

That was in December and they still havent replied to my letter yet!!!!