Partial plates

jeblee_2

I've just been out all day shopping with my daughter. When I got home I realised that whilst we were packing the car, she was cramming Tim Horton loyalty cards in the gap above the my rear number plate. I've been driving with it all day, in and out of carparks, some have ANPR. When I got home one was still there covering up the first 2 letters. She said she put a few in but they must have fallen out at some point. I took a photo and it looks like I've tried to cover it on purpose. I'm absolutely panicking, looking online it says upto £1k fine from the police for covering plates. Is it likely the car parks could raise this and is there anything I can do? I've been back to the carparks and the last one I visited I'm pretty certain I overstayed.

Gr1pr

I wouldn't worry about it

I would deal with any postal letters,  if anything arrived,  but I doubt that you will hear anything at all

ChirpyChicken

Nothing will happen 

QrizB

Another vote for "nothing will happen".

Car1980

looking online it says upto £1k fine from the police for covering plates

And the police would have to stop you!
Would be a pretty grumpy officer to ticket you for a child messing.
As for £1000 - you'd have to be trying to steal petrol with covered up plates at multiple petrol stations on a regular basis to get a fine that big!

Devongardener

Why was your daughter cramming cards in there in the first place?  It seems a very odd thing to do, and would certainly look like an attempt to cover the number plate if you were stopped by police.

James_Poisson

You weren't stopped by the police councils can't use ANPR in car parks only PPC's who are not an authority they have no links to the police.

The problem you might have is that you entered the private car park and the front VRN was logged going in, but as the rear was partially covered the car could still be in the system as still on site and clocking up many hours over stay.

Alternatively if you drove back in with the rear VRN uncovered it will log the first in and last out which if you forget the covered number pate scenario you could argue as a double dip,  they would have two entries in the system but only one exit.

But forget the police issue it ain't gonna happen, prepare for a NTK from private parking scammer.

In which case come back here for specific help.

Car1980

They'd have to state the length of parking if they wanted to send a charge through the post.

Not sure how they could do that with no exit time on the system.