Parking ticket for parking ticket for parking in disabled bay, urgent replies please

Tilt

Besides which the 'invoice' can only be aimed at the driver who is not necessarilly the RK. How are they going to find that out?

Ignore.

paul112

I am the registered keeper of the car, although my husband is also a nominated driver and the blue badge belongs to my daughter who was with him at the time.

Tilt

NeverAgain wrote: »

...ill this go via motability, and will they get involved in forcing me to pay?...

No, Motability is merely your finance company.

The DVLA will disclose the name and address of the registered keeper, which I take to be you or a member of your family.

If the car is under a motability contact then the user (or his/her carer representative) will be shown on the V5C as 'c/o motability' with motability's address and not the user's address. If the car is on HP through motability then it will have the user's full details as the RK. But in any event as I said above, it can olny be aimed at the driver and the PPC will not be able to show who that was.

NeverAgain_2

...I am the registered keeper of the car,...

OK, so you can look forward to all the nasty letters.

Neither Motability, your insurers, nor the local authority which issued the blue badge, will find out anything about this.

Not that it matters if they do.

Looking at Tilt's post above, what address does the DVLA have?

Yours or Motability's?

Tilt

paul112 wrote: »

I am the registered keeper of the car, although my husband is also a nominated driver and the blue badge belongs to my daughter who was with him at the time.

Matters not. They can only claim against the driver if they were to take the matter to court. Unless you divulge that information (which you are not obliged to do legally), how are they going to do that?

paul112

Tilt, the car is under a motability 3 yr hire contract, so does that mean that the parking company will not be able to find out who the RK is (ie, me)?

Will they try to get this information from motability? Or when they see that it is a motability car do you think this will be enough to make them not pursue this further?

Sorry for all the questions but I cant help worrying. I would also hate to be in bad books with motability.

dmliverpool

I have worked in the community with a group of people who were involved in the department of health blue badge scheme consultation and we actually got the head of our councils parking department talk about blue badge policy.

It was interesting as the attendants are over eager to dish out tickets and it will only get worse as tickets are one of a few income sources for bankrupt councils now. If you appeal you will win, however you should give a good reason why you didn't display which is something they will try to argue about.

They should also give you a refund if you have already paid as they see blue badge violations as a slap on the wrist and they will log your reg. The next time you do it you won't have a chance in hell in getting it back a you will be 'in their eyes' a repeat offender.

another route is to get infor from the ombudsman on parking tickets - http://www.parkingandtrafficappeals.gov.uk/ this will help a lot.

NeverAgain_2

... it will only get worse as tickets are one of a few income sources for bankrupt councils now...

dmliverpool,

This ticket is a private one, it has nothing to do with any local authority.

Tilt

paul112 wrote: »

Tilt, the car is under a motability 3 yr hire contract, so does that mean that the parking company will not be able to find out who the RK is (ie, me)?

Will they try to get this information from motability? Or when they see that it is a motability car do you think this will be enough to make them not pursue this further?

Sorry for all the questions but I cant help worrying. I would also hate to be in bad books with motability.

I take it then your address isn't shown on the V5C. No doubt they will 'buy' the info off the DVLA and see it is a motability car. My guess is they will not persue it any further by writing you the usual 'threat-o-grams'. However even if they do, they cannot take the RK to task over this as it is contractual law so the 'contract' would be between them and the person who used the facility, ie. the driver.

They may find out who the keeper is but I doubt if they have the technology to identify the driver.

Ignore and do not contact them. Different story had it been a council car park though. As for motability; If the PPC write to them I would imagine they will simply pass the letters on to you. I doubt they will be interested because no doubt you signed a decleration making you responsible for all parking and driving matters.

paul112

Thanks very much for all your replies, really appreciate it, fingers crossed we wont be harrassed too much.