Bus lane fine paid by lease company, no right to appeal, elevated price due to lack of action

soldave

sheramber said:

Around a month later I received a notice from the council stating that they would impose two fines on me for 2 bus lane offences within 90 seconds of each other
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 they could no correspond with me about the matter and would only deal with the leasing company (Hitachi Capital), but at the time there was no action needed from me as this was just an initial notification to me. I replied once more but again they stated they would not consider any email from me until Hitachi pointed them in my direction.

How did they get your details if Hitachi hadn't told them?

Surely, Hitachi must have pointed them in your direction for them them to have your details.

It's a fair question. I'm unsure but if Hitachi passed on their details to the council, the council wouldn't entertain corresponding with me other than that letter of intending notice.

soldave

AdrianC said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

It's the council's job to inform the RK - not the OP's.  Once the council has notified the RK (within time) Hitachi have an implied contractual duty to deal with the ticket appropriately without unnecessarily inflating the cost to the OP.

Oh, absolutely. And that's what happened.

But if the OP wanted to argue it out (not that it would have got anywhere, since it was bang-to-rights), then after the council said "We'll only talk to the RK", when asked about how to appeal, then the OP should have talked to the RK themselves and asked about how to take the appeal forwards.

As it was, the OP looks surprised that the financier saved them from being taken to court for a penalty unpaid for four months.

I suspect they were just hoping it would go quietly away...

Not hugely surprised. I wanted to pay the notice amounts when I first received the council letters it but the council wouldn't give me a reference number to pay the notices online directly to them.

[Deleted User]

What basis were you going to appeal on given you admit you did it? A mysterious one armed man who vanished without trace was to blame? Avoiding a collision doesn't sound anything like driving 50m into a bus lane to me

Ectophile

Deleted_User said:

What basis were you going to appeal on given you admit you did it? A mysterious one armed man who vanished without trace was to blame? Avoiding a collision doesn't sound anything like driving 50m into a bus lane to me

I assume the OP is objecting to getting two fines for straying into the bus lane.

AdrianC

Ectophile said:

Deleted_User said:

What basis were you going to appeal on given you admit you did it? A mysterious one armed man who vanished without trace was to blame? Avoiding a collision doesn't sound anything like driving 50m into a bus lane to me

I assume the OP is objecting to getting two fines for straying into the bus lane.

They got a fine for travelling in the bus lane in one direction, then a second fine for travelling in a bus lane the other direction, presumably. I assume it was a road that's actually completely bus-only.