Parking Ticket Problem

stuleech

I was issued a Penalty Charge Notice in a pay and display car park, the problem is I had purchased a valid ticket which had obviously become unfixed from my windscreen so was not able to be seen ( as their poor digital photographs are suppose to prove). I appealed against this as I was under the impression that because I had actually purchased a ticket it might get canceled.

Anyway today I have received a letter stating that I still have to pay as the ticket was not displayed.

Is it easiest just to give in and pay the £30 or is there any easy part of the parking law that will help me?

Thanks

Stuart

dnc1781

See:
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/faq/faq.htm?id=66

stuleech

That link doesn't apply to my situation, I was served with the pcn, but I had a valid pay and display ticket but it had become detached from a viewable position.

Butlers1982

The Onus is on you to ensure that the valid ticket you purchase is in view.

If for whatever reason it falls off, your liable for the charge

stuleech

To be perfectly honest I don't see how it should be my responsibility to pay a £60 fine when I've legitimately paid the pay & display charge. If the council's cheap ticket loses it's stick in the heat and falls onto my dashboard I don't believe it's fair that I get penalised for it.

Surely the ticket is proof in itself that I have paid and had intent to display the ticket properly, otherwise I wouldn't have bought the ticket in the first place.

tomstickland

Is it a fine or an invoice? Do some checking around on MSE search.

Of course, being a registered vehicle owner makes you an easy target and they hope you'll pay up just like that.

NAR

stuleech wrote: »

Surely the ticket is proof in itself that I have paid and had intent to display the ticket properly, otherwise I wouldn't have bought the ticket in the first place.

What does the notice on the ticket machine say? If it says the ticket must be visible then I doubt you have much by way of defence.

misfire

I can TOTALLY sympathise with this - I had a similar thing - the tickets werent sticky ones - i put it on dash closed the door (admitedly with a slam i was in a hurry late for church) my ticket slid down and was 'not visable' so i got a penalty charge.

I am currently appealing against mine.

I was so annoyed that 2 cars were parked blocking the saftey barrier for emergency vehicles the non carpark side of this barrier and the didnt get any parking ticket at all.

It is unfair but if you have appealed and they dont grant it i dont know what else you can do..... i fear i may be in that situation myself soon.

travel_freak

Hi

I can really sympathise with you too - this happened to a friend of mine, not with a sticky ticket but with one of the wafer thin paper ones and he had to pay up. It's unfair because it's damn near impossible to rest these on the dashboard without them flying away when you close the door.

I've now got a small bit of blu tack stuck in my ashtray (don't use it for anything else!) and when I get these paper jobbies I stick it to that on the dashboard just as a precaution!

As your ticket was a sticky if it fell off it might be worth your arguing that the ticket was faulty as it didn't stick properly - don't know whether you'll have success but it's got to be worth one letter I'd have thought - especially if you still have the ticket and can post it with your letter.

Good luck anyway.

ncrossland

I never stick my tickets to the windscreen, just place it on the dashboard where there is no chance of it falling off -- and more importantly for tickets which have the other extreme of stickiness -- doesn't leave white sticky marks on my windows!