Police Parking Ticket Doesn't Seem Fair

roddydogs

Isnt it onlt TPSCOs that can issue parking tickets? or is it different outside London.

captainprincess

JaspaC wrote: »

You must be saying that for a laugh! 'people could have been killed' I think the chances of someone being killed there during that hour because of my car are very very slim. You are exaggerating so much. Unless of course you could provide some evidence of this (not just a paragraph if blurb with some googled statistics thrown in).

A very slim chance someone could be killed!!! When I park my car I like there to NO chance that someone could be killed!!
Reckless parking if you ask me, which as I recall from your op you did!!

matt1987

roddydogs wrote: »

Isnt it onlt TPSCOs that can issue parking tickets? or is it different outside London.

That must just be for London. I know for sure that I can issue £30 tickets, because I do it most days!

Even when parking outside your own home we can give tickets for blocking the pavement ( Unnecessary Obstruction ). When parking always ask yourself if a double buggy could get past without having to go into the road? If a double buggy cant get past, it gets a ticket.

I am normally quite lenient in a sense where if I see a vehicle doing that, I will do a check on the vehicle to see if the owner lives locally, it may just be that they are parked outside their own home. If I can, I will knock on the door of the owner and advise them to move the vehicle. I don't really like issuing tickets to be honest, but sometimes it has to be done.

molerat

peter_the_piper wrote: »

This is a rare post where all the respondents actually agree with each other.

Yes, but we are all wrong. :rotfl:

wuckfit

I have to concur.
In fact I'd hazard a guess (pun intendid) that all the cars that were parked up there should have been towed. Be thankful it's only a £30 fine and not a release fee of £130. You got off lightly - It's quite clearly an obstruction, and it obscures the view of anyone trying to join the main road from the junction and makes them invisible to traffic on the main road.
My advice is to buy a highway code and read it. please. Specifically the bit about not parking within 15metres of a road junction. I think you're a menace to other road users, moreso if you drive as considerately as you 'park'.

Chippy_Minton_2

matt1987 wrote: »

Has it got a code as to why the ticket was issued on your FPN? Is it a 151?

151 is unique to the West Midlands.

biscuitdunker

JaspaC wrote: »

There is enough room for a car with even the longest of bonnets to reach the end of the junction, look to the right and then pull out. The only thing my car stops people doing is rushing straight out onto the carriage way, which they shouldn't be doing after seeing a give way sign anyway. This is a small inconvenience if anything.

You can argue until you're blue in the face, you're just making yourself look sillier. There's a reason why most people know not to park at junctions like that. You parked dangerously, hence your ticket. Personally, I think your car should have been scrapped and you should have your license revoked.

biscuitdunker

JaspaC wrote: »

Why can't I complain? they've damaged my car! I didn't ask them to do that. It is bent towards my car.

You can't complain because clearly if someone felt the need to do that, they were either trying to stop you from losing your wing mirror, or trying to prevent someone else from damaging their car because of your pathetically bad parking.

iamana1ias

JaspaC wrote: »

I've only ever had 2 parking tickets. after 3 years or driving. both in the same month. I didn't realize about the meter feeding obviously. you make it sound as if its obvious. I think I'm just unlucky.

I think you're just stupid. :rolleyes:

I've been driving for 15 years and have never had a parking ticket. By your maths I should have had 10 :eek:

My dad has been driving for 45 years (including in the Midlands) and guess what.................... no parking tickets issued there, either!

What are you doing at Loughborough, cause it sure ain't rational thinking!! :rotfl::rotfl:

Chippy_Minton_2

In response to jasperc
I parked where I did because of very little alternative whilst in a rush,
Not a suitable defence.
I was particularly angry at the fact that I got a ticket, and thus a £30 flat fine, rather than any kind of warning.
You were not there to warn.
I know this was wrong of me, and believe it or not I have had a glance through the highway code! Probably more than most.
You should fully understand it if you have a full UK licence.

If it weren't for the circumstances surrounding the parking situation for students in Loughborough I would not have parked like I did, however, even though it is illegal I saw it causing very little danger inconvenience anyone so I parked there.
You know it’s illegal and complain you got a ticket?
Now I thought I would try to explain these circumstances to you on this forum, knowing how helpful and knowledgeable SOME members of this forum can be. In the hope that you may be able to point out 'loopholes' such as mistake son the ticket and certain process I would have been able to go through. NOT because I just want to try and get out of a fine and park wherever I want, being above the law, not at all. But because I thought you may have sympathized with me slightly and offered some of your help. If you don't/didn't want to that's fine.
Very few do sympathize with you.

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Is yours the white one?

That's truly from a graduate of the Advanced School of Vehicle Abandonment.

Mine is the white one. You think that just because a car has 2 wheels on grass and the steering wheel turned that it is abandoned? Hardly! stop exaggerating.

Is it parked properly? No

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You're breaking so many laws there. It's unsafe, it's dangerous. People could be killed.

You must be saying that for a laugh! 'people could have been killed' I think the chances of someone being killed there during that hour because of my car are very very slim. You are exaggerating so much. Unless of course you could provide some evidence of this (not just a paragraph if blurb with some googled statistics thrown in).
Slim, but not impossible.
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Originally Posted by xocbc
I'm surprised that they didn't have the car removed tbh!

Why? It wasn't causing any problem to anyone else.
It was and that’s why you got the ticket.
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Originally Posted by biscuitdunker
You parked right beneath a Give Way sign, you're clearly making it much more dangerous for people trying to join the main carriage way! You seriously think this ticket was unfair??

There is enough room for a car with even the longest of bonnets to reach the end of the junction, look to the right and then pull out. The only thing my car stops people doing is rushing straight out onto the carriage way, which they shouldn't be doing after seeing a give way sign anyway. This is a small inconvenience if anything.
Small and unnecessary, all your doing.
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Originally Posted by James_N
This thread is not about getting away with charges and fines - it's about fairness and reasonableness.

I know exactly what this thread is about and that's why I posted. I'm not trying to just get away with breaking the law I'm trying to get you to see why I believe it is fair to let people park there.(as explained above).
How can it be fair when you commit an offence by doing it?
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Originally Posted by maninthestreet
2) Get some driving lessons.

I wasn't driving in any of those photos. Please stop making assumptions about my driving just from some pictures of a parked car. I can't help but think this is why you're all so angry, because you're building up this picture of me to be everything you hate about some drivers these days. I'm just like you! (even if that doesn't make you happy!).
So, someone else parked it there?
No you drove it there.
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Originally Posted by James_N
"great comeback"

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Originally Posted by king100
that is some of the worst parking i have seen.

Seriously?!?! You surely don't drive around that much then. Are you sure you're not just jumping on the bandwagon here?

No he thinks you parked it like a !!!!.


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Originally Posted by DaveF327
Your car was causing an obstruction to vision, even if not to the width of the carriageway. What you're forgetting is, while you cannot see a significant problem in your photographs with those vehicles, that doesn't mean there wasn't a problem earlier when a large lorry or bus had to squeeze by to turn right, effectively making the left lane impassable to people turning left. Drivers of low profile cars would have their vision along the dual carriageway significantly restricted until the last moment, therefore losing progress unnecessarily.

You could see the dual carriageway very clearly from the end as previously said. The two circumstances you mentioned only cause brief inconveniences, they don't actually stop vehicles from getting through, still with some ease.
No but you restricted their view of the junction.
This can be said for narrow 2 way streets where there are cars legally parked on both sides, if 2 buses or lorries had to come down in opposite directions there would be a lot of inconvenience as one of them would have to reverse.
But parked legal all the same.
It's worth mentioning that there were more cars there when I arrived, which Is why I parked on the island bit and not on the opposite side.
Still no defence
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Originally Posted by DaveF327
Let's look at another "knock on effect" you may be unaware of. If we assume that it's OK to plonk your car wherever there's no paint on the road, what's to stop someone parking immediately opposite you on the left? Although that obstruction would take the co-operation of many transgressors, the whole chain reaction of events would start with just one person. Rules are there to be obeyed. Just think, if everyone drove and parked exactly to the highway code and kept away from junctions, traffic wardens and police would have a very easy life and a collective fortune would be saved by the public in fines and penalties.

Again I only parked there because it was safe to when I arrived. If another car parked opposite me afterwards, it would be his fault! just like it is on a narrow road when a second car blocks access by parking adjacent to the first.

It’s not safe on the photo’s you posted and there are less cars then. You’d both be in the wrong if the police didn’t see who stopped first.

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Originally Posted by biscuitdunker
Do you mean here that the wing mirror was folding in towards the car? Because if so, perhaps the police were trying to do you a favor because of your awful parking and suspected that it might get knocked by other cars? If you mean it was folded backwards, then that was probably another car clipping you. Either way, you can't complain about that.

Why can't I complain? they've damaged my car! I didn't ask them to do that. It is bent towards my car.

Who are they? Did you see anyone do it?


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Originally Posted by photome
FWIW I think it was a stupid place to park

FWIW I think you're wrong and probably would have done the same.

We know it was stupid.



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Possibly more dangerous.
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Originally Posted by coupon-mad
IMHO people who park like the OP should be made to re-take their test or at least take an eye test if they can't see that they are causing an obstruction and are a danger to other traffic.

but I'm not causing an obstruction. and if you really believe I require a retest, for that offense, then maybe every little offence ever should require a retest. I doubt you are a perfect driver.
He still can’t see why he’s wrong.
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Originally Posted by dacouch
Thats not parked, it's abandoned!

Thats not abandoned, it's parked!
But parked wrong.
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Originally Posted by olly300
You are causing an obstruction it's been explained by lots of posters why.

I Disagree

So, take it to the magistrates court.

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Originally Posted by olly300
As a pedestrian particular a child the cars are blocking your view of the road. .

Not applicable. The grass I am parked on is technically an island, or spit. Meaning the road my wheels are on is just the exit of the university so pedestrians including small children would only need to look left to see oncoming traffic.Given that my car is in front of where the foot and cycle paths go to cross the road, my car is not obscuring their vision what-so-ever.

It’s all part of the road under the RTA.

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Originally Posted by Money_Grabber13579
What makes it funnier is that it isn't the first time!

Got done for meter feeding in this case. Even though the signs state no return in 1 hour for up to 3 hour tickets i.e. you can't just buy a new one when the old runs out!

I've only ever had 2 parking tickets. after 3 years or driving. both in the same month. I didn't realize about the meter feeding obviously. you make it sound as if its obvious. I think I'm just unlucky.
More a case of you don’t know the basics about parking.