UKPC £160 parking fine. Please help!!

Settheworldfree

The driver recently got a letter from UKPC for a £100 for leaving the car at a McDonalds car park 22:49-00:51. Now because he was away on holiday, the 14 day period had already expired by one day before he ever even opened the letter which meant that the fine has now turned into £160. I have read a few of the posts on here regarding similar situations to this but was wondering if anyone could advise on what to do and perhaps provide any legal information on whether the driver is liable in any way to be taken to court if he ignores this? If not then it would also be great to know how the law works around this kind of thing. Which laws make paying the parking charge unnecessary? Please let me know whether the driver should pay this fine or not as he/she is struggling for money. THANK YOU

Fruitcake

Edit your post before you do anything else to remove information about who did what. Also delete the numbers which may be a time.

Only ever refer to The Driver and The Keeper, who are two different people.

It is not a fine. The charge doesn't make sense as it should be £100 not £160 unless you are past 28 days. The 14 days is to catch mugs and make them think they should pay early instead of appealing.

Have you read the NEWBIES thread yet? This tells you everything you need to know about this unregulated scam, and how to appeal properly.

Redx

it will be £100 , not £160

£160 is when a debt collector adds on £60

read the NEWBIES FAQ sticky thread near the top of thie forum for advice on appealing and debt collector letetrs etc


its an INVOICE, so contract laws apply, as does POFA2012 if you dont blab about who was driving


so edit your post asap , no "MY , ME , MYSELF & I"

Settheworldfree

Won't let me edit!

Redx

use a laptop then

beamerguy

fake £160 ...... extortion try on

IGNORE THE SCAMMERS

It will be the idiots from DRP again

THE £60 SCAM OPERATED BY DRP ?
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/74439905#Comment_74439905

Here you have two scammers in one

UKPC who fake pictures
DRP who are retards

Both approved by the BPA in their quest to "drive up
parking standards" and are still stuck at the starting
post somewhere in the Gobi Desert

Settheworldfree

I have edited it. Thank you for that. I have gone on the website to write an appeal but it says that they have reffered it to a Debt recovery team. What can be done from here?

Settheworldfree

Fruitcake wrote: »

Edit your post before you do anything else to remove information about who did what. Also delete the numbers which may be a time.

Only ever refer to The Driver and The Keeper, who are two different people.

It is not a fine. The charge doesn't make sense as it should be £100 not £160 unless you are past 28 days. The 14 days is to catch mugs and make them think they should pay early instead of appealing.

Have you read the NEWBIES thread yet? This tells you everything you need to know about this unregulated scam, and how to appeal properly.

I have edited it. Thank you for that. I have gone on the website to write an appeal but it says that they have reffered it to a Debt recovery team. What can be done from here?

beamerguy

Settheworldfree wrote: »

I have edited it. Thank you for that. I have gone on the website to write an appeal but it says that they have reffered it to a Debt recovery team. What can be done from here?

See post # 6 above

Settheworldfree

beamerguy wrote: »

See post # 6 above

Just ignore them??
Also, I have noticed that the "parking charge date" is a month later than the date near the title which would have been the date the letter was written. this obviously means that its a breach of the Protection of Freedoms act 2012, section 56, paragraph 9, subparagraphs 4 and 5; where it states that they have to notify the keeper within 14 days after the "specified period of paring ended". I was going to include this in the appeal, but I should send an appeal to the debt recovery team? Should I really just ignore the whole thing or should I write to them just in case?

The_Deep

You are asking questions which have been answered in the FAQs/stickies, please read them.

As others say, this is not a fine, it is a speculative invoice for alleged damages for an alleged breach of contract, pay them nothing unless a judge orders you to, UKPC are lowlife scammers.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11858473/Parking-firm-UKPC-admits-faking-tickets-to-fine-drivers.html

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P.
for unprofessional conduct

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the House of Commons recently

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41 recently.

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by Christmas.