Parking ticket in Asda car park - Is this legal, can they take me to court?

billie19

wobbley wrote:

I don't remember saying I did.

So why the ticket then ....??????


Bille

CarolnMalky

Personally I think more shops should be issuing tickets to selfish people who park in disabled bays. My husband is disabled and the amount of times we have had to park a good distance away from the shops is unbeleivable...we have heard all the excuses...it was raining...i was only popping in for one thing...to be honest its just rude and selfish!
Remember the motto...treat others as you would like treated! The disabled bays are there to help disabled people, not to keep fit people dry or save them walking!!

Poppy9

Splashed across our local rag a few weeks ago was a woman complaining of being clamped and paying an £80 removal fee for parking while displaying a disabled badge.

Reading the full story she parked on private land which is at the rear of local shops. The owners of the land fed up with over the years drivers ignoring the no parking signs, private land etc employed a company to clamp drivers.

The driver had popped to the local shops leaving her son and family friend in the car. The blue badge was displayed, though she knew it was private land and there was a sign warning of clamping. The blue badge was for her son who is autistic.

Is it me or was this not only a clear abuse of parking on somebody's private land and also of the blue badge?

Dora_the_Explorer_5

wobbley wrote:

We got a ticket while parked in a disabled bay at Asda and it wasn't a 'private' (pirate) company. It was given by an official Council Parking Attendant. I was a bit peeved at that, I felt they should have at least had signs informing that it was council controlled with all the court/bailiff hassle rather than a private company that you can tell to sod off.

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Originally Posted by carrie483
Why did you park in a disabled bay without a badge wobbley?

I don't remember saying I did.

I wish there were photos accompanying the tickets showing missing limbs, twisted backs etc in full colour so people could learn what disabled looked like.
People get narked when they get a ticket for parking in a disabled bay when they'e not disabled because they're embarrassed at being caught out and being made to pay the price for their antisocial behaviour. Plain and simple.

carrie483

Wobbley, you must have done something wrong to get the ticket??

Poppy9

What about if you are temporarily disabled. In the last year both my sisters have broken their legs (don't say it comes in 3's:eek: ). I have taken them shopping to Tesco's and Asda's. Some branches the attendants have let me park in a disabled bay as they cannot get to the shop safely on their own on crutches (one even had to have a wheel chair brought to car for her and then wheeled around shop. Other branches said I would be booked if I parked in the disabled bay. I don't think that's fair. They were geniune cases.

wobbley

billie19 wrote:

So why the ticket then ....??????


Bille

Our local council, who issue the blue badges decided they would change the way they renew them. We were told my wife could not apply for a new badge until the old one ran out. Then there would be about two weeks wait for the new one to be issued thereby she didn't have a 'valid' badge for at least 14 days.(turned out to be 17 days) We pointed out to the council that this was ridiculous as it affected every disabled person with a blue badge.
All we got was "Well this is the way we do it now".
So armed with an out of date pass, we decided not to go into the city centre and be at the mercy of the council's own parking attendants, but to go to the local asda as it was a private car park.
Lo and behold, when we exit asda my wife's car has an 'official' council parking ticket. Demanding £30 for displaying an out of date pass. Now I know parking attendants are sub human, but the badge was just over 24 hours 'out of date'. If they had checked the tax disc (that they are told to do) they would have seen that it was tax exempt due to disability, so, obviously a disabled persons car. There we no signs saying the (7 miles out of town and NOT a public highway) car park was patrolled by official council parking attendants.
So we wrote to the council telling them that the reason my wife didn't have a valid blue badge was down to their own flawed policy on renewal and absolutely not through any fault of ours. Eventually, they so kindly waived the fine.
That's why we parked in a disabled bay - because my wife is disabled.
And we got a ticket because the council,,,, well it's a council - stupid and inept.

bookworm1363

Dora_the_Explorer wrote:

I wish there were photos accompanying the tickets showing missing limbs, twisted backs etc in full colour so people could learn what disabled looked like.

I have to disagree with you there, that is just perpetuating the visible disability aspect.

I am registered disabled. Sometimes, you'd know, sometimes you wouldn't. I can get out of the car normally one time, and be virtually unable to walk by the time I get back to it. I have an extremely serious degenerative back condition which means that one day, I may not be able to walk anymore, it could be tomorrow, it may never happen. We don't know. But to anyone who sees me, I appear to be a middle-aged, slightly overweight, but otherwise healthy person. But I NEED that space because I never know when my back is going to seize. And when it does, I am crippled. Every tiny step is excruciating pain.

skyrocket

I think anyone who parks in disabled spaces and mother and baby spaces unjustifiably is a disgrace and SHOULD be clamped/fined. I for one am always complaining to our local Tescos/Sainburys whenever I shop there about the hard-faced selfish swines who do so.
It makes my blood boil! And there's not much that does that!

morveryn

bookworm1363 wrote:

I have to disagree with you there, that is just perpetuating the visible disability aspect.

I am registered disabled. Sometimes, you'd know, sometimes you wouldn't. I can get out of the car normally one time, and be virtually unable to walk by the time I get back to it. I have an extremely serious degenerative back condition which means that one day, I may not be able to walk anymore, it could be tomorrow, it may never happen. We don't know. But to anyone who sees me, I appear to be a middle-aged, slightly overweight, but otherwise healthy person. But I NEED that space because I never know when my back is going to seize. And when it does, I am crippled. Every tiny step is excruciating pain.

I certainly think the general public needs to be educated more on what 'disabled' is & how different the problems can be for each affected person. I am 33 & have a 4 year old daughter. I look like any other mum - until i get my walking stick out. I'm like you bookworm, registered disabled & have good days & bad. Some people seem incapable of realising that some of us have hidden disabilities.
You can't see our disability just as you can't see thoughtlessness & stupidity until someone without a blue badge parks in a disabled bay:rolleyes: