Parking Tickets

[oxo]

I was on holiday and the elastic band holding my disabled badge perished and the badge fell on the floor of the car. My neighbour took delight in this and rang the police to tell them I was parked on the box without a disabled badge so the police came out and put a ticket on the car. I have everything on CCTV so I know that he reported it. I was going to contest the ticket because the badge had fallen off but when I started typing a letter and I checked the ticket I noticed that the last letter on the registration number was wrong, it should read VGC but the copper has written VGZ. do I need to do anything about this or can I just ignore the ticket since the registration number is wrong? Thanks in advance for any help, John

[Baldric]

similar here

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question1258332.html

[bednobs]

it doesn't really matter who reported it does it? (and unless your cctv has sound, i don't really see how you can be sure)

[gina32]

how do you know that it was definately your neighbour who reported you???

[whiskeryron]

Just to be objective about this. You get fined for not displaying your disabled badge, it should be placed on the dashboard to be easily seen (what's this about an elastic band ?)

WR.

[oxo]

Sorry Baldric but as I mentioned, it was the police who issued the parking ticket whereas the information in the video was for a private firm. I would like to re-iterate that I HAVE got a disabled badge but my neighbour who owns the shop next door claims that I am using HIS customers' parking spaces up and I should park round the back even though I have a disabled bay outside my house. The police officer who gave me the ticket took my details off an advert on the side window and they ALL know that I am disabled and that I do have a blue badge but my neighbour is a right b????rd and will do anything to cause me hassle.

[oxo]

Gina 32 I spent ages watching the CCTV and it clearly shows the police officer going into the shop and coming out with the owner and they stood there while the shop owner gesticulated towards the box and my car, he then went into the shop and the officer wrote his ticket.

[dzug2]

Baldric's example relates to a private parking company

Yours looks to be a local authority which are enforceable - if they can trace you

To avoid a future occurrence you might want to think about something more reliable than an elastic band to hold it in place

[bednobs]

as i said, it's copletly irrelevant who reported it, or what cctv you have, if you badge had fallen off, or even if people"know" you are disabled
If you weren't displaying permission to be parked in the disabled space, then the parking ticket has been correctly issued. You say that the police officer has your details (and presumably you are still parking there so they could find you if they wanted) so i don't think you can use the "wrong number plate" reason not to pay. As far as i recall, if you don't pay and they yake you to court, they have up until the court date to amend the details to the correct ones anyway.
You have 2 options
1) pay up
2)appeal it and see how far you get

[bazwillrun]

Sounds like a typical jobsworth no common sense plod

fight it all the way if you can

[meglet]

I would appeal it rather than ignore it. I was given a parking ticket when I had bought one but had stupidly put it in on the dash so the back was showing instead of the front. When I spoke to the local authority helpline about it they advised not to pay it (they are less likely to bother with you if they already have your money and its a hassle for them to issue a refund) and to write in and appeal with your evidence. So I photocopied the ticket, wrote a grovelling letter explaining that I hadn't intended to park illegally and they accepted it.

(If I were you I and was succesful I would send a copy of the letter accepting your appeal to your neighbour. What an ar*e.)

[Peter Pedant]

Yes fight it
or no, fight it

as well as a spaz card - I hasten to add that I have one myself as a result of chemotherapy for blah blah and so on and son on

your tax disc should be free and should also - have disabled on it.

so the person giving you the ticket didnt serve it properly

so yeah fight it - and if you can get off because the registration is wrong- which I also have experience with, and I think will get up a nd run
then do so.

and yes the family call the car in which the spaz card resides,
the spaz mobile.


I have nice neighbours but even so....

[fiesata]

You could fight it on the grounds of incorrect ticket or try telling what happened and see if they come to your way of thinking

BTW not everyone who has a blue badge gets nil tax rate - only people who receive higher rate mobility component

A marked disabled bay can be used by anyone displaying a blue badge

[Peter Pedant]

A friend forbad me going to court with him
when he was photographed they alleged - running a red light

in a grey car when his was blue.

I said fight it on the day - but instead I was banned - and he WROTE to the police saying his car was blue and the police said - oops checked the photo and yes it is blue....

and the panel on the day appointed said: do you want to take advice.....
and he said no, because he was an old man and feeling badgered
and the panel said are you sure ?


because clearly to my mind there was reasonable doubt.

IN the end the old boy said yes look I did it - let's get on with it I cant bear the stress etc etcc

so they convicted him. I still have it in for the chmn of altrincham magistrates who clearly convicted when there was doubt.....

however fight it oxo......

[hc4361]

Peter, the disabled tax disc means nothing when it comes to parking, it's the badge that counts.

A car with disabled tax can be driven by an able bodied person if he or she is carrying out business such as shopping on behalf of the disabled person, even if the disabled person is not in the car.
To park using the blue badge the disabled person must be using the car at that time, too.

[north star]

What exactly have you been given? A police officer would give you a fixed penalty notice whereas a civil enforcement office would give you a penalty charge notice. These are quite different things and how you fight / appeal is quite different too.

Please clarify.

[kylesmum]

north star, the OP states quite clearly the Police issued the ticket.

oxo, if I were you I would definitely appeal.They have to take everything into consideration.Would it be worth having a word with the Police Officer concerned? He must have noted what was said by your (very spiteful) neighbour.
I'm aware that due to the DPA he will likely not go into the ins and outs but if you have his number he might be asked to divulge the information at an appeal hearing.
Good Luck.

[hc4361]

What sort of disabled bay is it? If it is advisory only it is not enforceable so the ticket should never have been issued.