Yesterday I got a fine of £120 for stopping in front a bus stand!!
It was for less than 15 seconds (and there was no other cars around, so no obstructing the traffic), just to let my wife get off the car.
Since cabs stopped there (back of Clapham Junction Station) I thought I could do it just for few seconds to let people to get in (or out) the car. Fine was dated the 25 Sept. and I got notified yesterday. My main worry is that I will get few more of this type of fine since I was bringing my wife to the station everyday.
The Notice of Intended Prosecution was issued out of time, what do I do now?
If you are the registered keeper of the vehicle and the ISSUE date on the Notice of Intended Prosecution is more than 14 days after the offence, then you can reject it. This only applies if it is dated more than 14 days after the alleged offence. It does not apply if it is dated within 14 days but received more than 14 days after the offence. If the NIP has been issued too late, then you should return it to the Process Office stating that you reject it because it is time barred. Bear in mind that if you are not the registered keeper, the NIP may have originally been issued within time and sent to the keeper.
If it was for parking then I don’t think that you get a NIP, just a ticket through the post. It’s getting more common for the councils to be issuing parking tickets like this after spotting offences on CCTV. I know of a few people who’ve had similar tickets in the past few months.
This has also been a problem at Ealing Broadway Station where a single local authority cctv has been set up to catch people pausing to drop off outside the station. It has caused a huge stink locally with furious letters to the local paper and the Council but no-one has been successful in challenging the tickets.
It seems to be happening all over at the moment. It’s a similar situation around Chiswick, the cameras can see people stopping on yellow lines to drop people off but don’t seem to be able to see people getting mugged and getting their cars broken into
the date of the contravention was the 25 Sept. 2008.
date of penalty charge notice was the 8 Oct. 2008
I receive the notice the 16 Oct. 2008 - if they did let me know earlier I would have stop to drop people there. But this is not convenient to the council!!!
I will double check the sign post there (if I can read it, because half is gone).
EM
P.S. How wonder if the cab can drop people off there without getting a penalty
Can i just ask you as you seem to know about this sort of thing. I was issued a ticket for rideing in a bus lane, the “offence” happend 21st Dec 07 and the fine didn’t arrive till 28th May 08 when i replyed stateing the 28day rule they then sent me a second ticket for £120 saying the time limit for paying the first fine had passed.:w00t:
Contest it if you can - however - they want the money - i had a ticket for putting p&d in upside down! wouldn’t have minded so much but it was outside the police station i was in there reporting a mugging! they never got the muggers but they got £40 out of me! who says crime doesn’t pay?
