Reading signs with dyslexia

katiiee135

Fruitcake said:

You are in the right place now, and you will get all the help you need to fight this.

Don't worry about having revealed the driver's identity. I think this is actually to your advantage, and I think you have done the right thing by doing so.
If it gets to court you will be able to honestly say, "I have a reading disability, here is a picture of the sign, here is proof of my diagnosis."

You are a witness to the alleged event, and you have evidence that supports you case.

I suggest you try to find out who the landowner is and make a complaint to them, citing your reading disorder and the EA 2010.

Please tell us the location as well as it may have cropped up on this site before.

Also get pictures of the site and signage as part of your evidence.

As an aside, do you normally use a coloured overlay or coloured lenses for reading? Our youngest son was tested using different coloured overlays, and then had coloured lense prescription glasses made that helped him greatly with his dyslexia and ADHD.

It is quite possible that the colours used on the signs might have had an adverse effect on your ability to understand or interpret the wording. Any diagnosis of colours that help you, and colours that make things more difficult might be useful to you, or even just that it is a known medical fact that some people who have been diagnose with dyslexia find certain colour combinations harder to read than others.

Thank you. I didn't think the land owner would be interested as it isn't a shop that wants their customers to come back, it is just a residential estate. The location is in Romford and I think they call the particular site "reflections".

I went back to the site and got my partner to take pictures from the point of view from the car of the entrance sign to show why I walked back to read it. I used this as part my appeal.

I do remember at school I used different colour paper (green) to write with, however I do not have any evidence of this being a medical assessment, maybe just something that was suggested so I done it. It does help.


Thank you for your understanding. 

Fruitcake

katiiee135 said:

Fruitcake said:

You are in the right place now, and you will get all the help you need to fight this.

Don't worry about having revealed the driver's identity. I think this is actually to your advantage, and I think you have done the right thing by doing so.
If it gets to court you will be able to honestly say, "I have a reading disability, here is a picture of the sign, here is proof of my diagnosis."

You are a witness to the alleged event, and you have evidence that supports you case.

I suggest you try to find out who the landowner is and make a complaint to them, citing your reading disorder and the EA 2010.

Please tell us the location as well as it may have cropped up on this site before.

Also get pictures of the site and signage as part of your evidence.

As an aside, do you normally use a coloured overlay or coloured lenses for reading? Our youngest son was tested using different coloured overlays, and then had coloured lense prescription glasses made that helped him greatly with his dyslexia and ADHD.

It is quite possible that the colours used on the signs might have had an adverse effect on your ability to understand or interpret the wording. Any diagnosis of colours that help you, and colours that make things more difficult might be useful to you, or even just that it is a known medical fact that some people who have been diagnose with dyslexia find certain colour combinations harder to read than others.

Thank you. I didn't think the land owner would be interested as it isn't a shop that wants their customers to come back, it is just a residential estate. The location is in Romford and I think they call the particular site "reflections".

I went back to the site and got my partner to take pictures from the point of view from the car of the entrance sign to show why I walked back to read it. I used this as part my appeal.

I do remember at school I used different colour paper (green) to write with, however I do not have any evidence of this being a medical assessment, maybe just something that was suggested so I done it. It does help.


Thank you for your understanding. 

If you found that using coloured paper helps your ability to read and understand, then it must be true that certain colours will make it harder for you to read and understand. Keep that information in the back of your mind if the parking company decides to take this further.

Please do take the advice of D_P_Dance and complain to your MP. Remind her/him that MPs across all parties have referred to these unregulated parking companies as rogues, scammers, and bloodsuckers in open parliamentary debate, and that is why Sir Gregg Knight MP pushed a parking bill through parliament that was given Royal ascent in 2019.
Remind her/him about the requirements of the Equality Act as well, and ask her/him to contact the MP where the alleged event occurred if different.

Pupils with dyslexia are given longer to complete exams. It stands to reason that a motorist with dyslexia needs longer to read a parking sign, which is what forms a contract with a driver.

I've used this website before to contact my MP, and found it very easy.


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katiiee135

Do you think it is worth me requesting a SAR from them to see if they have any cctv evidence that suggests they think I am doing anything but what I have told them I was doing (reading the signs).

If so, please could you direct me to the guidance on how to do this.

Fruitcake

It's unlikely that the PPC will have used CCTV. If there is any it will more likely belong to the landowner. Even if the images haven't been deleted, it will be extremely difficult to get them to check it. You won't be permitted to see anything that isn't your data.

From the comments in your initial post, it sounds like there was an attendant present who took pictures of the car. The parking company have intimated that there was a parking employee present, and are saying that had the driver gone to read the signs, the attendant would have seen them. 
I wouldn't pay any attention to that. It is impossible to prove a negative.

There is no point in sending an SAR at the moment. Save that for court if it gets that far.

katiiee135

Ok everyone, I have a confession. I went to pay this tonight. After having a day of sitting at home all day crippled by anxiety about going to court I thought it is not worth the stress....

However, once logged onto the the site to pay, it has put the charge up to £140!

Now I am just furious. I have had no notification from this and was led to believe by the IAS that I have 14 days to pay the charge.

Does anyone have an email address to get in contact with them as their phone number does not work.

Le_Kirk

katiiee135 said:

Does anyone have an email address to get in contact with them as their phone number does not work.

Who is them?  Do not try to phone PPCs or debt collector or IAS, they will just be rude to you and try to get you to pay and worse, you will have no written record of what was said.

D_P_Dance

Never ever 'phone anyone in this scam industry.  If this goes to court you will need a paper  trail.   

Coupon-mad

Want to know what my odds are, although I understand this can never be definite.

I don't understand...if you have read it (as we hope all newbies have) you already know from the NEWBIES thread what our win rate is.  I tell people there, in the same place that already tells newbies that the odd person who loses pays about £200. 

Everything is already answered in the advice thread in capital letters at the top of this forum.