Parking Ticket

[Ichor]

I paid for a ticket at a 'Pay & Display' meter and did not notice that the amount and time was printed wrongly. I was subsequently received a penalty charge. I have explained by letter to the council involved what had happened and they claim their machine is working perfectly. It is my responsibility, so they tell me to check at the time of purchase.

I claim that if I paid the correct money (which I did) and no coin was rejected by the machine I was right to assume that everything was in order. I do not spend time checking every parking ticket that I pay for! I also feel that they are responsible for providing machines that work properly.

What is the next step I should take. I have until Tuesday (27th) to pay £25 or the fine is increased to £50! On a point of order I think I'll not pay. What will happen?

[2sp_]

If you don't pay, the fine will increase to £50 and they will take you to court if you don't pay that.

I wonder if anyone else was caught out on the same day? I'm not sure how you would find out though? Unless you ask the council under the FOI act.

[EcclesCake]

I would imagine the council will follow their procedures as laid out in their notification.

I don't see that you have much of a leg to stand on as you did not check that the ticket was valid for the period of parking you just assumed it was.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Take it to the local press to see if anyone else comes forward with the same issue

[redman41]

WELSHYORKIE makes a good point !

[Ichor]

Thanks everyone. I'll bite the bullet and pay up! ****

[thugulike]

I paid for a parking ticket and inadvertently pressed the button for a ticket before the last pound coin registered. This meant I was an hour short on my ticket which I didn't check. I wrote to the council, enclosing my ticket and asked them to check the cash in the machine (I told them which machine I had used), They wrote back and waived the ticket as they'd found an extra pound in the machine that day. I think I was just lucky though. Good luck

[inksplotter]

If a machine is broken it should have an "Out of Order" sign on it as soon as possible. Obtaining money by false pretenses by the council is still fraud.