emergency had to park in a disabled bay

johnmclayton155

Hi there
A few weeks ago I got a phone call from my son’s nursery saying that I need to go down. When I got there they explained that my son had a rash like meningitis. As I work in the hospital I know how serious it can be and I agreed it did look like Meningitis but as im no doctor I know it needed looking at ASAP. I put my son in the car and made the short trip to the hospital and went to park. I looked round for 5 minutes for a parking space and couldn’t find one. As I knew that if this is meningitis it needs treating ASAP i put my car in a disabled space. I would never normally do this ever but my son’s health is more important. I’m glad to say it wasn’t Meningitis and we were discharged. When I got back to the car I did have a ticket for parking in a disabled space. I appealed it with the parking company because of mitigating circumstances and were refused so I took it to POPLA and they too refused the appeal. Where do we stand? If this went to court would we be made to pay under the circumstances?

bazster

What company?

Have you complained to PALS at the hospital? (Patient Advisory and Liaison Service).

Redx

only a judge can decide that particular answer , but he or she may take the factors into account, assuming that you dont fight it on the usual legal issues raised in the NEWBIES STICKY THREAD, like not a gpeol, no contract etc (the ones you should have included in the popla appeal, as popla dont allow mitigation as you found out)

shame you didnt ask on here before submitting the popla appeal, working it on the main appeal points would have killed this pcn stone dead, but nothing you can do now except weather the storm for 6 years and hope it doesnt go to LBC or MCOL

you can ignore any debt collector letters though

as bazster says, a complaint should also be made to PALS too

johnmclayton155

Thanks guys. I cant remember the compant name of the top my head. I will check when im home. I am going to give that a go with PALS. I just think that it is discusting that a hospital dosnt have enough parking spaces. Im sure im not then only one to turn up in a way like this and it be urgent.

Redx

if you name the hospital its probably come up before on here , hence we can then work out who the PPC might be

The_Deep

I posted recently on the confusing emergency parking at Rpyal Berks hospital, Reading, it does not exist and a PPC prowls around.

Coupon-mad

johnmclayton155 wrote: »

Thanks guys. I cant remember the compant name of the top my head. I will check when im home. I am going to give that a go with PALS. I just think that it is discusting that a hospital dosnt have enough parking spaces. Im sure im not then only one to turn up in a way like this and it be urgent.

Tell us the PPC, and urgently complain to PALS and the Hospital Facilities Manager.

Don't think you have to pay this just because you mucked up the POPLA appeal (you'd have won at POPLA if you'd researched it here...). It was a wasted appeal.

Guest101

johnmclayton155 wrote: »

Hi there
A few weeks ago I got a phone call from my son’s nursery saying that I need to go down. When I got there they explained that my son had a rash like meningitis. As I work in the hospital I know how serious it can be and I agreed it did look like Meningitis but as im no doctor I know it needed looking at ASAP. I put my son in the car and made the short trip to the hospital and went to park. I looked round for 5 minutes for a parking space and couldn’t find one. As I knew that if this is meningitis it needs treating ASAP i put my car in a disabled space. I would never normally do this ever but my son’s health is more important. I’m glad to say it wasn’t Meningitis and we were discharged. When I got back to the car I did have a ticket for parking in a disabled space. I appealed it with the parking company because of mitigating circumstances and were refused so I took it to POPLA and they too refused the appeal. Where do we stand? If this went to court would we be made to pay under the circumstances?

Just 3 points:
1: you work at the hospital - no staff parking?
2: you work at the hospital, can you not speak to the exec team and get this cancelled?
3: you work at the hospital, you must know the parking situation

Not blaming you at all, and im sure you'll get this sorted, just wondering.

johnmclayton155

Hi there. It is the royal Oldham. I do have a staff permit. I drove rount the staff carpark, the patiant carpark's and back into the staff car park. In the end I had to park in the disabled bay of the staff car park. I couldnt risk messing about with how potentially serious it was. If this went to court and I lost would I get a CCJ? im worried that if so this would hinder my chances of attaining credit. Thanks

Redx

johnmclayton155 wrote: »

If this went to court and I lost would I get a CCJ?

im worried that if so this would hinder my chances of attaining credit. Thanks

see post #26 here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5006194

and see post #11 here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5035341

or post #4 here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5028593

and despite REPEATED requests you still have not named the PPC !

this 2 year old article says it was APCOA , so may be still the same

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/clampdown-starts-on-illegal-parking-at-north-691796

MEM62

You made the mistake of basing you appeal on mitigation - this NEVER works, either with the parking company or POPLA. Your appeal should have been on contractual grounds, as advised in most of the posts on here. (Usually no GPEOL)

Your choices are either to pay up or see if the parking company actually takes you to court and then use GPEOL as a defence.