Parking ticket regulations

[paulus996]

Does anyone know what the regulations are regarding when a parking ticket is classed as being issued?.
Basically I came back to my van just as a parking attendant arrived, while I was asking him where I could park to unload some tools he continued to input my van details into his handheld printer(?), I then drove off before he could actually place the ticket on my windscreen. As I was driving off he pointed at his machine and said that he had my details, does this mean that I can still receive the parking fine, or was it just B.S.

[PrinceRainie]

how long were you parked there illegally?
My understanding is that it doesnt matter...you could still get the ticket but throught the post.............just have to wait and see!!! good luck...

[paulus996]

Only a few minutes, just took some tools from my van, walked around back of house, spoke to owner then went back to van.
I hope you are wrong!. I did see a programme about traffic wardens in London once and I'm sure that you could avoid the fine as long as you drove away before they could ticket your car or hand it to you. Suppose different councils could have different rules though.

[VillageVicar]

A week ago I was responding to a potential suicide. I admit I parked on double yellow lines whilst I ran to the individual's door and awaited the arrival of medics. It took them almost 20 minutes to arrive. When I returned I had a lovely �30 ticket. Despite the fact I had a large clergy card in the window, bearing the name and address of the church and my mobile number. I have two of these cards - one says FUNERAL the other says EMERGENCY. I often get called by the police to attend emergencies and when I do, there are times when I again park on double lines as I attend the situation - sometimes an impending death, or to collect immediate details so that I can do an emergency family visit to advise. Yes, I owe the �30, but I was a bit disappointed that whoever issued the ticket didn't consider assessing the situation by either waiting a few minutes or at least phoning to see what I was up to.

Perhaps it was the same person who didn't have any training on how to jump into a pond to save a child's life... crum!

'No good deed goes unpunished!'

Fr Bill

[PhilD]

Traffic Wardens using common sense? Well there's a first time for everything I suppose.

[Panic Button]

Try appealling vicar, you might be lucky as rumour has it there are a couple of humans in the system somewhere.

[VillageVicar]

Thanks panic...I had thought of writing a letter and seeing how they might reply... I only have a few days to do so and I can provide the names of the medics as well as the surgery I work with for this particular individual. I just felt it was a rather low kick in the rubber bits to find it....and on a priest's salary it means either hot dogs for the next fortnight or dipping into the poor box! Thank you for the advice!

Fr Bill

[VillageVicar]

By the way PhilD, it was actually one of the PCSO's who left the ticket. I live in a village where we don't have the luxury of traffic wardens...which I felt actually added insult to injury...

go figure!

Fr Bill

[NORMANTHEDOG]

if your a vicar,then im the bl00dy queen of sheba.

[Ethel]

Stipend.

[Panic Button]

I'm not in the least bit religious, but Father Bill and priest suggest catholic to me,while vicar suggests protestant.

I think Norman has it right.

[Loosehead]

You'll be ok, they have to actually put the ticket on the car and take a picture of it.

[New Judge]

Loosehead is quite correct.

There was a case in the past few months (cannot remember the details) which went, I think, either to the High Court of even the Court of Appeal. It was ruled that the parking ticket cannot be deemed to have been issued unless it is completed and fixed to the offending vehicle.

I should have thought that all parking wardens would have been advised of this ruling by now. But then again....

[Ethel]

Depends who issued it - if it was a council parking attendant or a private company attendant, that is the case.

Police employed traffic warden, police officer of CSO, not so.

[paulus996]

I think he was just a council parking attendant, fingers crossed anyway!

[Panic Button]

Hey Norm. He IS a real man of the cloth!

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