fine for parking adjacent to centre double white line?

cyclonebri1

Hi, can anyone tell the fine for doing this?
It's irrelevant if it's double solid or broken on one side or the other, the offence is the same, but all I can google is the max fine which as in all other offences is frightening.

To add, this isn't me, it's a experienced clean driver with no track record, and it's parking not crossing.

Silver-Surfer_2

A non-endorsable fixed penalty is £50.

cyclonebri1

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

A non-endorsable fixed penalty is £50.

thank you very much.

Car_54

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

A non-endorsable fixed penalty is £50.

No. It is an offence under section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (Failure to comply with traffic signs*).

If offered a fixed penalty, £100 fine and 3 points.

If it goes to court, income-related level 3 fine (maximum £1,000), minimum 3 points. Disqualification possible (but unlikely).

* - Signs include road markings.

Silver-Surfer_2

Car_54 wrote: »

No. It is an offence under section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (Failure to comply with traffic signs*).

If offered a fixed penalty, £100 fine and 3 points.

If it goes to court, income-related level 3 fine (maximum £1,000), minimum 3 points. Disqualification possible (but unlikely).

* - Signs include road markings.

Let's hope they've served a nip or else they'll have to deal with the obstruction offence.

forgotmyname

I was thinking the same, i wouldnt be worrying about a fine, i would worry they towed it for being an oibstruction with the fine and towing costs to follow.

Gloomendoom

One of the questions I got asked on my driving test was what would I do if I came up behind a car that had parked adjacent to double white lines on a single carriageway.

My response was that it wouldn't happen because parking adjacent to double white lines was illegal.

Obviously, I was wrong.

londonTiger

by parking there you are forcing other road users to CROSS A DOUBLE WHITE LINE to get past.

It's a double white line for a reason, because it's DANGEROUS for cars to overtake by going onto the oncoming side.

Some drivers are just inconsiderate people. yesterday some land rover driver decided to just double park just before a flow through bottleneck. Putting his hazards on to somehow means it's OK.

Really annoying

cyclonebri1

Agreed with all so and this is the clincher, why is it acceptable at school run time but not at other times, is the Road traffic act time dependent?

i need to expand this as there is an issue here.

My wife has just come out from serious surgery, people are coming to visit.

We live near the brow of a hill hence the white line issue.

No one should park there, had I been in or could she have warned then, they would not have parked there.
However a copper car drove by and came back and planted a ticket. This was mid day on a school day.

Now I have no issue here, had i been that copper I would have done the same, it's simple common sense, don't park where you would put other motorists at risk, simples.

So why oh why every day of the school week at 8:30 and 3:30 is it a free for all where the school mum can park on the pavement, halfway across my drive, or against the white lines?

I have reported this many times but just the other day a family friend got stung, I can't drop that. Waiting for the local desk sgt to answer but you know what the answer was the last time this was reported?

"Oh we like the parking neat the hill bend, it slows traffic down",

Yours incensed.

Silver-Surfer_2

Some of it is time dependant but not for the problem you describe.

Car_54

The fact that other people have committed the same offence and escaped action may be annoying, but it does not make your friend any less guilty.