Driving Licence Points???

[ibizaboy]

my vile next door neighbour repeatedly parks on a single yellow line on the wrong of the road for parking and occasionally blocks the pavement. he frequently gets tickets on his windscreen. my question is, do you also get points on your licence and how long will it be before he gets banned from driving.? thanks.

[EDDIE51]

You don't get points on your licence for parking , it is not a driving offence!
He just gets a bill each time but no points. So parking will never affect his driving licence.

[Islay]

You’ll only get penalty points on your licence for certain types of parking FPN, eg for leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position.

[ibizaboy]

whilst the question may not be that clear " eddie51" he,s parking on the side of the road you,re not supposed to park on and blocking the pavement. he,s obviously getting parking tickets for that reason. I was just wondering if you also got points on your licence. ( I don't drive).

[Islay]

The answer depends on the type of fines he is issued.

[EDDIE51]

No you don't get points for that, What islay says is true but 'leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position' IS a driving / criminal offence. Bad parking is not a driving / criminal offence it is a civil offence only.
The only hope is that if the tickets are actual fines issued by the police or council and he does not pay them the court can confiscate his car and sell it to pay off the fines. Take comfort from the fact that he will be getting charged £30 to £50 for every ticket he gets!

[EDDIE51]

Islay only the police or a local council can issue parking ' Fines '.
Private car parking companies can only issue 'invoices' or 'bills' for parking they are NOT a penalty or a fine just an invoice or bill.

[Islay]

The op does not state who is leaving the tickets Eddie. So you cannot make that assumption

[bednobs]

hes probaby jus sticking the same one on,

[EDDIE51]

It's in the street ( single yellow line) which is a pubic road so it will be a traffic warden or the police who have issued it so it will be a fine.
Very many people do not realize there is a major difference between a fine or 'Penalty Charge Notice' that can only be issued by a parking / traffic warden and a 'Parking Charge Notice' that is issued by a private parking company. The private companies make their invoices look as much like a Penalty Charge Notice as possible to try to scare people into paying.

[Islay]

If the police have issued the tickets then there is a possibility of them being issued for 'dangerous' parking if they are blocking the pavement.

So to answer the question - yes in some circumstances you do get points on your licence but the chances are pretty slim.

[EDDIE51]

There is no such thing as 'dangerous parking' Islay.
The offence of 'leaving a car in a dangerous position' applies if someone leaves a car in a position that causes danger to other drivers , in the middle of a busy road for example.

[Islay]

Eddie please note my paragraph at 1905 was posted directly from a government website.

But perhaps you know better!!

[Islay]

Dangerous parking can also be blocking a school access or putting people at risk if they cannot access the pavement!

[New Judge]

Let’s cut to the chase.

The only “parking” offence that attracts an endorsement and penalty points (as far as I can recall) is, as has been mentioned, under Section 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, “Leaving vehicles in dangerous positions”. It says this:

“If a person in charge of a vehicle causes or permits the vehicle or a trailer drawn by it to remain at rest on a road in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to involve a danger of injury to other persons using the road, he is guilty of an offence.”

So the bad parking has to involve a “danger of injury” to other road users. A prosecution is certainly most unlikely to succeed for simply parking on a yellow line or on the wrong side of the road. Parking so as to block the pavement might see a success (depending on the circumstances). We need not go into the details, though, because we don’t know enough about them to form a view as to what a court might think (and when issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice, that is what must be considered). I should think this person is simply being issued with standard “parking tickets” which are now decriminalised offences.

[Islay]

Thanks for the clarification NJ