parking ticket while dropping daughter at school

liam1986

Received a ticket through via one of those lovely cctv cars that go around now, while doing the school run.



the sign stating no stopping isn't visible from the direction I approached.


is this good enough grounds to appeal? or just pay the thing.


I can't post links yet as I'm a new member, anything I can do about this?


many thanks

Redx

try pepipoo forums if this is a council charge

use tinypic or photobucket to host any scans or pictures

Browntoa

If you stop on a zigzag clear area then the signs don't apply

Coupon-mad

We are guessing you chose school 'yellow zigzags' which was a terrible idea. And yes, CEOs can enforce with camera cars on school 'no stopping' areas for safety reasons. Quite right too.

You do know you CAN park on single or double yellows - probably just along a bit - to load/unload or pick up or drop off a child? Legally - as long as you cause no obsruction and the exempt activity is all you do (i.e. not go and stand and wait or chat to the teachers). Assisted boarding/alighting is an exemption applying to disabled/elderly/infirm and youger childen, which I assume those needing a lift to school are, if they needed assistance to get to or from adjacent premises.

Can't believe the idiot parents at the primary school I work at, who choose a bus stop or zigzags rather than legal double/single yellows, to drop off a child. Doh! All they need to watch out for are kerb blips/loading restrictions and if there are none then it IS OK to drop off on yellow lines, despite the hysterical brigade who cluelessly rant about 'lazy parents' doing just this. So many people think double yellows are 'red route' style no stopping markings. They are not.

I recall collecting one of my young sons and his luggage after a school trip; I arrived, stopped, leaving my car on double yellows quite legally on a wide road; I crossed the road as the coach had already arrived, grabbed son's holdall from him and crossed the road safely with him back to my car, only to find some old biddy peering at me from her driveway, clutching a camera and aiming it at my car. And no, I wasn't overlapping nor blocking her driveway, nowhere near it. Just stopped to load, on yellows.

I laughed, waved cheerily at her with a grin and held up the luggage and said 'take as many pics as you like but loading is perfectly OK on double yellows, so I suggest you just get a life'. She went back indoors. Never saw her again, clearly she had delusions of being a neighbourhood watch self-styled 'traffic warden' without the CEO training or any knowledge of what's actually a contravention and what isn't...

...so, next time stop for a few minutes (five is easily OK and sufficient for exempt activity like dropping a child at the school gate) on yellow lines. Not bus stops, not loading bays, not taxi stands, not anywhere with a loading restriction/kerb blips and not school zigzags.

gardner1

liam1986 wrote: »

Received a ticket through via one of those lovely cctv cars that go around now, while doing the school run.



the sign stating no stopping isn't visible from the direction I approached.


is this good enough grounds to appeal? or just pay the thing.


I can't post links yet as I'm a new member, anything I can do about this?


many thanks

if you've been caught by cctv car chances are you were stopped on zigzag line or in bus stop if the answer is yes just pay up and learn a lesson

julied4076

I stopped on a single yellow line today to allow my grandaughter to get out of my car & was approached almost immediately by a police man telling me I cannot stop on single yellow lines & a camera car is parked just the other side of this caravan (parked in the street) & you may get a ticket. What's all this about

fisherjim

julied4076 wrote: »

I stopped on a single yellow line today to allow my grandaughter to get out of my car & was approached almost immediately by a police man telling me I cannot stop on single yellow lines & a camera car is parked just the other side of this caravan (parked in the street) & you may get a ticket. What's all this about

Well this is about you hi-jacking someone else's thread, for an unrelated issue.
However single yellows are there in conjunction with signs showing times of prohibition which you should have read, just like you should have read your highway code!

Coupon-mad

Except that assisted boarding or alighting (a child passenger) IS allowed on single yellows unless there were also kerb blips & a loading ban in operation at that time.

You can drop off or pick up a child or disabled person on 'normal' single or double yellows.

Tilt

Need a bit more info. Location would help.

In the meantime, stopping on yellow school entrance zig zag markings which are supported by yellow restriction signs is usually a no stopping offence rather than a no waiting one. This means if you stop for the purposes of dropping/picking up within the zig zag area then the offence is committed.

Yellow lines are different. As CM says, there are boarding and alighting exemptions available where as you are allowed to escort a vulnerable person between your vehicle and the school building.