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

ohreally

Anniek1969 wrote:

We complained in our local Asda about people using the disabled bays who didn't have a badge displayed and using the parent & child bays when they don't have kids with them, and were told that these bays were only a courtesy thing and that they couldn't do anything about people using them improperly.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=1212284&postcount=233

The final paragraph may be of interest.

nearlyrich

Wig wrote:

The OP is married, his money is hers her money is his, joint account and all that. If any bill appears it has to be paid irrespective of where it came from.

Maybe you are not married and/or still in the in the

"your money is yours my money is mine and we each pay our own way" school of thought.

Some couples (most?) do eventually move on from this premise into the

"we're in this together for better or for worse" school of thought.

Can't see how this is at all relevant to the discussion, what is right for you might not be right for everyone, I think that the comment about chosing to sort out the ticket was about the hassle of dealing with the fine etc not about which pot/ bank account the money comes from.

FWIW I have been in a very happy relationship for over 15 years, married for almost 8 years and we have never pooled our money. We have never had a row about money either.

Back to the OP, I would pass it back to your OH and advise him to pay up and next time he is tempted to park in a disabled space remember it can be an expensive thing to do.

carrie483

funnyguy wrote:

i would like to know why these supermarket car parks have so many disabled bays in the first place..they are never all used..They provide a good 20/30 spaces in many of them ..and then normally have 2 at the most disable trollies for shopping with.I dont normally see 20/30 disabled people in the supermarket at one time either{no disrespect to disabled people}

Disabled doesn't just mean people in a wheelchair. What a silly comment, i'm sorry but this irritates me.

I have 3 disabled members of my family, my mum who's in a wheelchair, my brother who can walk but only with walking sticks and my uncle who has a heart problem. All of them have disabled badges and whenever possible (when people are parked there when the shouldn't) use a disabled bay.

naughty_10382

People who don't need to use the disabled spaces (ie - don't have a badge stating they can use it, not just who aren't in a wheelchair) should not be there.

My friend and I went to London by train last Dec, I picked her up (she is in a wheelchair) and we went to the station. I had been told there were disabled spaces, when we got there, there were 2. Both used. One car was facing away so I couldn't see if it had a badge or not. The other car had a parking fine on it because it was parked illegally.

That's all very well and good, but I still had to park my car at the other end of the car park, not even in a space, just pulled up on the kerb. I would have gone somewhere else, but I didn't know what time places would shut and I knew we would be back very late. I then found a very angry note from someone else on my windscreen when we got back - I don't know if they had trouble getting out of their space or what.

I think, in a situation where there are only a couple of disabled spaces and people are illegally parked in them, the car should be towed away thus enabling actual disabled people to use the space and not have to park somewhere inconvenient like myself.

tomstickland

I don't know the full circumstances, but abuse of disabled spaces really annoys me and I'm pleased that the supermarket are doing something about it.

skint-78

I would like to know if people would like to take on our disability as well as our disabled parking spaces?
I am sure this wouldn't be as attractive a prospect?

Wig

nearlyrich wrote:

Can't see how this is at all relevant to the discussion, what is right for you might not be right for everyone, I think that the comment about chosing to sort out the ticket was about the hassle of dealing with the fine etc not about which pot/ bank account the money comes from.

FWIW I have been in a very happy relationship for over 15 years, married for almost 8 years and we have never pooled our money. We have never had a row about money either.

Back to the OP, I would pass it back to your OH and advise him to pay up and next time he is tempted to park in a disabled space remember it can be an expensive thing to do.

Roflmao,

Quite by chance I decided to enter the vent board, I saw this old thread (5 months old) had been bumped up, decided to see why. Didn't expect to see a reply to me here Lol!

My post has about as much relevance to the discussion as yours does. It was relevant in reply to the poster I wrote it to (I can't remember and I'm not going to bother going back to look now), I'd say my post did have relevance, because from my opinion the OP knew if this wasn't dealt with it would escalate and really it didn't matter who deals with it because the consequences of not dealing with it would affect both of them.

Anyway, that's enough from me about something I wrote 5 months ago.

exel1966

ohreally wrote:

From a govt site...''Non-disabled people who park in a bay designated for Blue Badge holders are liable to a parking fine''.- therefore one can reasonably conclude that if a fine is administered then a crime has been committed, grounds for a police interest perhaps?

Yes, but that only applies on a Public Highway, NOT private property.

JasonLVC

skint-78 wrote:

I would like to know if people would like to take on our disability as well as our disabled parking spaces?
I am sure this wouldn't be as attractive a prospect?

In the same manner, can the people who park in parent child spaces take on my three kids as well.

Having worked in the mental health sector previously, disabled can mean anything from angina, stress or a limp through to truly debilitating problems.

The DDA is about removing the stigma and problems disabled people face day-to-day, not to give them some higher moral ground to preach from.

Disabled people can be just as selfish and thoughtless as the next person, lets not forget that (the misuse of blue badges such as lending to friends/family members who are not disabled for example). My secretary is disabled and is constantly offering me her badge/car when I go into town for meetings. I refuse everytime, but it's that 'being helpful, but really dilluting the purpose of the badge' thing that leads to general abuse of any system.

I'd like to note, controversially, that the number of times I see disabled badge holders parking and getting in/out of parent child spaces is too numerous to mention. And of course, the pensioners who park in the Parent Child spaces too (old doesn't mean disabled!). No doubt they'd tell me that because some numpty has parked in THEIR spaces, they are forced to park in MY spaces. Two wrongs do not make a right.

It's all a little silly, the spaces belong to no-one but the store themelves. I agree that all the spaces are generally mis-used and I am am constantly enraged when I see people pulling into disabled bays and then 'jumping' out of their vehicle, which is usually an X5 or Merc, or middle aged women parking in parent child in their two seater convertibles with not a child in site (although I'm not doubting they are parents!).

However, the stores are unlilkely to react unless they receive complaints about it, as regardless of where people park, as long as they spend money in store.....money talks. I think this thread and the general consensus of outrage, which I go alongwith, is more an indication of the society we've created today where it's everyman for himself so I fully support this store starting to fine people who are not eligible to park in such spacces. About time too and lets hope they role it out across the country..

Back on thread. Bottom line, if the OP has parked in an incorrect bay, wrong place, on the pavement, etc then the fine should stand.

carrie483

I totally agree, and i also think that we should have the same law here as in America, if you park in a handicapped space without a badge then you can get arrested and should be.