Ambulance given parking ticket

[Deleted User]

Parking company only apologising and waving the ticket because of the video and media uproar.

If it wasn't for that, the ticket would have still been sent to the ambulance service who will have paid up as a matter of course as it is cheaper and less hassle then trying to fight it.

Madbags

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

No they haven’t, they’ve been sent for retraining. Whatever that will involve...

Probably means they are the trainer and have gone to retrain other parking inspectors on how to maximise profits in ways such as this.

GothicStirling

I work for the NHS, and there's a huge difference between this and parking in response to an emergency. If there had been a cardiac event in the shop then they can legally park on double yellow lines. Its things like this erode public confidence in emergency service workers, I sure hope the paramedics involved have got a ticking off. They where blocking access to other emergency vehicles who may have been responding to an emergency? I suspect people wouldn't have reacted the same had it been a police car on double yellow lines.

DUTR

GothicStirling wrote: »

I work for the NHS, and there's a huge difference between this and parking in response to an emergency. If there had been a cardiac event in the shop then they can legally park on double yellow lines. Its things like this erode public confidence in emergency service workers, I sure hope the paramedics involved have got a ticking off. They where blocking access to other emergency vehicles who may have been responding to an emergency? I suspect people wouldn't have reacted the same had it been a police car on double yellow lines.

Well said, I fear the drivers may know they were in for a ticking off otherwise why were they debating with the parking attendant?
When police cars are at the local supermarket, they use the usual parking bays just like the regular shoppers.

Mercdriver

GothicStirling wrote: »

I work for the NHS, and there's a huge difference between this and parking in response to an emergency. If there had been a cardiac event in the shop then they can legally park on double yellow lines. Its things like this erode public confidence in emergency service workers, I sure hope the paramedics involved have got a ticking off. They where blocking access to other emergency vehicles who may have been responding to an emergency? I suspect people wouldn't have reacted the same had it been a police car on double yellow lines.

But these weren't REAL yellow lines painted by a council. They were unofficial ones painted by a contractor on behalf of the landlord. They have no basis in law.

Mercdriver

DUTR wrote: »

Well said, I fear the drivers may know they were in for a ticking off otherwise why were they debating with the parking attendant?
When police cars are at the local supermarket, they use the usual parking bays just like the regular shoppers.

Except they wouldn't fit into a normal bay - one had parked in a disabled bay - the one that drove off before he could get a ticket - and the other the female said that she wasn't going to take up a disabled bay that someone else might need, and that she couldn't get it into a normal space.

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Mercdriver wrote: »

But these weren't REAL yellow lines painted by a council. They were unofficial ones painted by a contractor on behalf of the landlord. They have no basis in law.

No doubt even if they were REAL yellow lines they would have done the same.

Mercdriver wrote: »

Except they wouldn't fit into a normal bay - one had parked in a disabled bay - the one that drove off before he could get a ticket - and the other the female said that she wasn't going to take up a disabled bay that someone else might need, and that she couldn't get it into a normal space.

Use 2 bays, while still probably liable for a ticket for not "parking within the lines" at least they wouldn't be blocking access on the road.

DUTR

Mercdriver wrote: »

Except they wouldn't fit into a normal bay - one had parked in a disabled bay - the one that drove off before he could get a ticket - and the other the female said that she wasn't going to take up a disabled bay that someone else might need, and that she couldn't get it into a normal space.

Well, the whole thread is of opinion, and some opinion differ from you and mine, personally I agree with the parking attendant, there is too much emotion defending the drivers, they could have parked in the delivery van bay. The drivers in the video are the ones letting down their colleagues IMO.

Mercdriver

Deleted_User wrote: »

No doubt even if they were REAL yellow lines they would have done the same.




Use 2 bays, while still probably liable for a ticket for not "parking within the lines" at least they wouldn't be blocking access on the road.

They weren't blocking access. Several cars passed with no hindrance whatsoever.

Mercdriver

DUTR wrote: »

Well, the whole thread is of opinion, and some opinion differ from you and mine, personally I agree with the parking attendant, there is too much emotion defending the drivers, they could have parked in the delivery van bay. The drivers in the video are the ones letting down their colleagues IMO.

Well I hope you or anyone else you care for are never delayed assistance because staff had to do a full circuit and perhaps wait for a courier to finish his delivery.