Hi everyone,
I forgot to display my badge and got a ticket, is ther any point in appealing?
Thanks
Mellie
Hi everyone,
I forgot to display my badge and got a ticket, is ther any point in appealing?
Thanks
Mellie
Mellie - welcome,
Yes sooner or later we all fall foul to the traffic warden.
To answer your question - yes make a written appeal.
Photocopy both sides of your blue badge and add a letter headed 'mitigating circumstances' and be humble, apologise and let them know you didn't cause the offense deliberately but your attention was distracted as you were getting out of the car due to a friend letting on to you - that's the sort of thing you need. Send the letter off right away. They'llwrite back to let you know that they've let you off this time or will stick to their guns and gie you 14 days to pay.
Let us know how you get on.
okay will do , thanks for your help will let you know how i get on.
Cheers
You have a 50-50 Chance of them saying OK we will allow it this time, but if they say sorry pay it then I would just pay it and chalk it down to one of those things.... A friend of mine took it to court saying he just forgot, and the judged threw the book at him, saying that perhaps he needed to be seen by a doctor for his memory loss, he left the court and four days later had a letter from his doctor to check his memory..... and that's fact.
HI mellie.Originally Posted by MELLIE
Hi everyone,
I forgot to display my badge and got a ticket, is ther any point in appealing?
Thanks
Mellie
sorry you have fallen in to the same situation as myself for failing to display my blue badge!!!!!. on all days APRIL 1ST!!!.
i posted a comment on this site and was more or less told to take the punishment like anyone else has to do .
anyway i lodged my appeal and pleaded guilty for the offence i had commited , i also gave a bit of background in to my circumstances as to why i forgot to display the badge and clock. i also had my cap in my hand and apoligised unreservedley , said a few prayers! and hey presto i got the result yesterday with .
I AM PLEASED TO INFORM YOU ON THIS OCCASION YOUR EXPLANATION HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AND THE PENALTY CHARGE NOTICE HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED
so a very good result for me on this occasion ! , reading the letter , it states (on this occasion ) so all my chances have now been exhausted , so the answer to your question is if you feel you have a genuine excuse i would say go ahead and put in your appeal , you have nothing to lose and the penalty charge will not increase while you wait for there reply .
i am thinking of buying a lottery ticket this weekend, also i am still able to buy all my grandchildren there easter eggs has planned !!!!!!!!!!.
best of luck in your appeal and i hope your magic pencil works for you as well !.
best regards.
Well it all depends they tend to read each letter without going on a back ground search, then tend to be more lenient to people who have mental health issues, or memory problems, people who do have problems with forgetting things, I left my car this week in the funeral of my father in law, but a note was left on my window to remember to please put up my blue badge. I saw the parking attendant and he said I could see your disabled with your crutches on the bank seat.
But lets not kid our selves in this age of cuts some councils and parking attendants are on targets, I watched this week a lady getting a ticket because her back wheel was touching a yellow line, and my council does not tend to be very friendly to parking offenses, but of course if you take it to court, they tend to look at the law.
I forgot to display mine once and as we got back to the car the traffic warden was coming up the street so i explained what i'd done and offered to pay him.He said he wasn't allowed to take any money off us but to appeal which I did.I copied my Blue badge and sent it off and thankfully i was told i would'nt have to pay but the only let you off once.Hope you are lucky and don't have to pay also.
My BB gets faded by the sun as I have to display it permanently, having a disabled bay outside my house, and the road being Residents Only parking. An over-zeaous traffc warden was going to book me for it!
Sometimes common sense flies out the wimdow as they have targets to reach before knocking off time but it also depends on the warden, some of whom just give you a reminder and leave it at that.
That happens often to those people who have to leave the badge on display, I did see one lady who had put the badge into a covering which was darker, it helped she said to keep the sun off it, then she was done for covering the card so a partly sighted car parking attandant could not see it according to him. She went to court and won.
I'd never go to court to ask if they'd let me off a parking ticket as I've had too many.
At my previous place of work in Manchester going back 20 years there was no disabled parking close to the work's entrance and all the paving slabs were like trip hazards. In the winter the paving was deadly so I just parked outside the entrance every day on double yellow lines and got a ticket every day for a week.
Then, while I was in work, the receptionist phoned me to say Chief Inspector Watson and Sergeant Watson were in reception and wanted to see me - gulp!
Yes they wanted to know why I kept deliberately parking in the same area and breaking the law. I told them that there were no accessible bays locally, the paving was dangerous and it was icy - I had no choice - they let me off all the tickets on the spot.
A week later an accessible blue badge parking area was put outside the entrance and the paving flags 10 yards either side of the entrance were lifted and relaid flat by the council - a result!.
Standing up to your rights can sometimes help. However, this new accessible parking bay wasn't unique to me - another blue badge, (orange badge in those days), holder used to try and get in early to use it - the swine. So I was one of the first in the office just to make sure I was able to park in the newly designated spot. It's still there today but not marked up on the official City Council's Blue Badge parking map - mum's the word.
I bet it wouldn't happen today.
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