PARKING TICKETS

[flitty]

WENT SHOPPING TODAY AND BOUGHT A TICKET AT THE PRIVATE RUN CENTRE CAR PARK. wHEN I RETURNED I HAD A 60 QUID FINE ON MY CAR AS IT APPEARS THE TICKET FROM THE MACHINE HAD FELL ONTO THE FLOOR OUTSIDE THE CAR WHEN I SHUT THE DOOR. SHOULD I PAY AS I DID BUY A TICKET, WAS IN GOOD TIME AND NEVER DELIBERATELY DECIEVED THE FORM WHO RAN THE PARK. SHOWED MY TICKET TO THE ATTENDANT WHOSE NUMBE RI GOT BUT SHOULD I PAY AS I HAVE BEEN TOLD THESE FINES ARE NOT RECOVERABLE IN LAW.

[Prudie]

I have a feeling the ticket has to be clearly on display so it's not just the fact you've bought one. Mean I know.

[Buenchico]

You can try fighting it, but don't automatically believe everyone who tells you that civil parking penalties are unenforceable. This guy could have paid £65 but ended up paying £258.36:
http://www.rochdaleon...alty-in-landmark-case

Chris

[Postdog]

That said, it happened to me once - as I shut the door, the draught must have knocked it off. I sent a copy of the ticket (retained the original) and they accepted my excuse.

[jaydah]

Dont send any money send photocopy of ticket to company. Claim the glue on tkt didn't stick.

[alavahalf]

Dont pay without an appeal ... http://www.moneywise....aign=ContentPromotion

[Daily-Editor]

Flitty - you have not received a FINE. It is an unenforceable INVOICE. Read Martin Lewis' advice from moneysavingexpert.

http://www.moneysavin...ivate-parking-tickets

Private parking tickets are unregulated, unlike Council or Police Penalty Notice Charges.

You have not committed a crime.

Also see here

WATCHDOG MAY 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIcdi9niHA

Under no circumstances contact the Parking ticket company. This is civil law and not criminal law. They must send letters to the Driver not the registered keeper. And they cannot prove who wa driving.

Read all the threads on moneysavingexpert.

Do not worry.

[buildersmate]

............ and Chris should know better than quote the legal case he did. In that particular case, the individual sought legal advice from a help website. But the idiot identified himself in the threads of the website and the prosecution used THAT evidence to persuade the judge of his guilt. You KNOW that, Chris, we've discussed this case on here before.