Another Parking Ticket Question

[milly143]

When you are issued with a parking ticket, does it by law have to be acttached to the vehicle or handed to the driver? Is the ticket invalid if neither of these things have been done?

[ummmm]

I don't think so.

What if it wasn't the registered keeper driving the car? Or some numpty thinks it's funny to take the ticket off the screen?

[R1Geezer]

No that once was the case but it has been changed in the last few years.

[New Judge]

You don't even have to be given a ticket at all. Some local authorities are now issuing tickets based on evidence from CCTV cameras.

[chas2008]

yep, i received a ticket for a van i drive, all done by CCTV, unfortunately it was the wrong vehicle !! the van had never been near the place in question & the picture showed a red Astra 3dr car, mines a white Astra van ....as the number plate looked similiar they sent me the ticket !!

[milly143]

Oh well, I've sent it to the appeal board anyway as the warden is a lying t0sser.

[ummmm]

Milly...I got let off one recently. I parked in a loading bay to unload my Nan. It was the only place I could park that wasn't double yellows or wasn't obstructing traffic. I took her into the house (permit parking area) got her sat down and went to move my car...and I had a ticket.

I appealed and they let me off....I wasn't lying either.

[milly143]

To be honest we get quite a few parking tickets because all 4 vans are in London most days so it's just part of the business and some I just pay because they have us fair and square. I've appealed quite a few in the past and they have been cancelled. This one has really p1ssed me off though. I've posted about it before so won't bore with the details again but I appealed once and it got rejected so I've sent a new appeal to an adjudicator today. Will just wait and see I suppose.

[DEN53]

I once appealed against a ticket, because the wrong make of vehicle was entered on it, and I got off.

Ummmm - do you not have a Blue Badge for your Nan ?

[ummmm]

DEN - No, she lives in a home so we take it in turns to take her out. Most of the time we can park near the house but I got the ticket close to Christmas...and all the spaces that weren't 'permit' were taken (they live two mins from the town centre)

She'd just had a mastectomy and I still had to park a street away. I have asked about getting a parking permit (he used to have one when they had a car) but things keeps going wrong and it gets put to the back of our minds...

[wilkesneil]

chas similar thing happened with my missus, she got a ticket in wales and they printed the number plate on the ticket, nothing ever came of that.

milly, i had 1 years ago and i went into the loacl office and showed them a photo of a small scratch on my car, and told them their warden done it leaning over the car as i witnessed him do it walking back to the car and threatened legal action if the ticket wasn't dropped as the repair was roughly the same cost of the ticket. they did drop it, maybe worth a try!!!