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northumbria police - fixed penalty notice
carajade87
Posts: 4 Newbie
im looking for some advise/help!
today i parked on a path in a quiet side street with no yellow line alongside where i was (it stops as it rounds the bend for the junction, just behind where my car was). the part of path i was on is big enough for two cars side by side, so i was causing no obstruction whatsoever, and the car on the road alongside mine was not given a ticket.
ticket:
fixed penalty notice (non-endorsable offence)
mr reg...
street and town
time parked from and until, also date on,
offence, code M1, (vehicle was waiting in restricted street) and it also says 'causing an unnecessary obstruction.' next to the code.
and annoyingly, i cant get the 4" by 3" white sticky square off the windscreen, im tempted to tell them they have damaged my vehicle!!
Is there any obvious problems anyone can spot with this?? does anyone know a way out of it? or should i just pay it? i have 28 days from today.
today i parked on a path in a quiet side street with no yellow line alongside where i was (it stops as it rounds the bend for the junction, just behind where my car was). the part of path i was on is big enough for two cars side by side, so i was causing no obstruction whatsoever, and the car on the road alongside mine was not given a ticket.
ticket:
fixed penalty notice (non-endorsable offence)
mr reg...
street and town
time parked from and until, also date on,
offence, code M1, (vehicle was waiting in restricted street) and it also says 'causing an unnecessary obstruction.' next to the code.
and annoyingly, i cant get the 4" by 3" white sticky square off the windscreen, im tempted to tell them they have damaged my vehicle!!
Is there any obvious problems anyone can spot with this?? does anyone know a way out of it? or should i just pay it? i have 28 days from today.
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You were parked on the path.
That's the offence.
Pay up!!British Ex-pat in British Columbia!0 -
that is what i thought it was for until i looked and it doesnt say anything about being on a public footpath, just being on a restricted street, which i dont think it is, as no signs or lines.. if it said it was for being on the path i could understand
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FPN from police goes to maggies court, most unlikely you would win, usual advice is to pay up.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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carajade87 wrote: »that is what i thought it was for until i looked and it doesnt say anything about being on a public footpath, just being on a restricted street, which i dont think it is, as no signs or lines.. if it said it was for being on the path i could understand
All footpaths are 'restricted streets' unless specifically marked with parking bays and signs erected accordingly, because parking on a footpath is automatically an obstruction IIRC.
It is likely that someone will have made a complaint however - it is unusual for the plod to bother their @rses otherwise...British Ex-pat in British Columbia!0 -
Yup, the 'causing an unnecessary obstruction' is to pedestrians, not to other drivers. Pay up and don't do it again...If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands
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