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Oracle of DelphiHow to avoid paying for a parking ticket
March 29th 2007 19:36
If you do a search on goggle for “Parking Ticket” you will end up with many sites that offer information on how to avoid paying for fines, charges and parking tickets, it would appear that there is a mini industry building up in this field, however it appears that there are even easier ways of avoiding paying a parking fine, and it will surprise many of you exactly how simple and effective it can be.
Take the case of Simeon Ademolake, a businessman and councillor from Newham, East London, two years ago he was out in his car and parked on a “Red Route” in Whitechapel, London, red routes are effectively bus lanes, these help keep the public transport system flowing and therefore in turn makes using the bus a viable alternative to using a car, Mr Ademolake parked outside a shop where he was picking up some clothes from being cleaned, he parked with one wheel on the red route, which is an offence, as he left the shop he saw a traffic warden by his car, he quickly apologised and drove off. A couple of days later he received a £50 parking ticket through the post and so the two year saga began.
An appeal was lodged at the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service, the case being that a ticket issued by a traffic warden has to be placed on the vehicle or handed to the driver, clearly this was not done as Mr Ademolake received the ticket through the post, the appeal was successful, yet Transport for London decided to contest this appeal and pursued it through the High Court. The case was concluded yesterday and ruled once again in Mr Ademolake favour, the ruling being that “Motorists cannot be given a parking fine if they drive away before the ticket has been issued, the High Court decreed.” this will have some serious implications for future parking fines, and possibly any other fines that have been delivered in this manner and had been paid without any question or appeal.
Of course being a councillor Mr Ademolake should have know better, and on the other hand parking tickets should be issued correctly, when is this ever going to be sorted out, CCTV, fines, charges and now parking tickets, what will next.
Source [Metro]
Take the case of Simeon Ademolake, a businessman and councillor from Newham, East London, two years ago he was out in his car and parked on a “Red Route” in Whitechapel, London, red routes are effectively bus lanes, these help keep the public transport system flowing and therefore in turn makes using the bus a viable alternative to using a car, Mr Ademolake parked outside a shop where he was picking up some clothes from being cleaned, he parked with one wheel on the red route, which is an offence, as he left the shop he saw a traffic warden by his car, he quickly apologised and drove off. A couple of days later he received a £50 parking ticket through the post and so the two year saga began.
How to avoid paying for a parking ticket
An appeal was lodged at the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service, the case being that a ticket issued by a traffic warden has to be placed on the vehicle or handed to the driver, clearly this was not done as Mr Ademolake received the ticket through the post, the appeal was successful, yet Transport for London decided to contest this appeal and pursued it through the High Court. The case was concluded yesterday and ruled once again in Mr Ademolake favour, the ruling being that “Motorists cannot be given a parking fine if they drive away before the ticket has been issued, the High Court decreed.” this will have some serious implications for future parking fines, and possibly any other fines that have been delivered in this manner and had been paid without any question or appeal.
Of course being a councillor Mr Ademolake should have know better, and on the other hand parking tickets should be issued correctly, when is this ever going to be sorted out, CCTV, fines, charges and now parking tickets, what will next.
Source [Metro]
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