Mistake in the parking ticket

marcool · Post by **marcool** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:27 pm

Hi,

I just got a parking ticket this morning. But the date is wrong. It says 11.03.2009 at 7:09.
The ticket is justified because I was maybe a bit too close to the crossing (4m instead of 5m...grrrr)

My car was not at that place on that day. I have nothing to prove it but still it's wrong.
Has anyone ever refused to pay a parking ticket on such a ground?

How should I do it?
Is it worth doing it?

In France I would complain right away and I know I wouldn't pay that.

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Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:36 pm

Stupid question, but did you check it is your licence plate number on the ticket?

(Just in case someone moved the ticket off their windscreen onto yours

)

BTW, there is an appeal procedure (isn't there a website address on the ticket???). I have a feeling you have to pay it first then you can appeal for a refund.... (not sure though) but the topic has been on here before so try the search engine.

jas_rho · Post by **jas_rho** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:29 am

marcool wrote:
In France I would complain right away and I know I wouldn't pay that.

It wouldn't hurt anything to complain about it. And I would recommend doing it right away as well and not wait around

The worse that's gonna happen is that you'll just have to pay. You should have gone to complain the day that the ticket was dated and say hey come on how can I be ticketed for this if I wasn't even parked there then

Good luck!

marcool · Post by **marcool** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:59 am

Thanks for your remarks!

raamv · Post by **raamv** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:02 pm

if its your regn no and you have received a paper copy, then the ticket is already entered into the system. => pay to get that as "ticked" off the system then appeals can then decide if it gets off the system or not..

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:12 pm

marcool wrote:My car was not at that place on that day.

The person issuing the ticket will have a carbon copy, or an electronic record will exist in a data base, in which case it will be possible to correlate your ticket number with the correct date even if what you have in your hand is chronologically incorrect.

I would suggest that it's enough that your car was in a place at a time of day, where it should not have been. And if it was not there... how did the ticket come to be in your possession in order that you would dispute it?

Unless you ignore the ticket and then when they chase it up you can prove that on 11.03.2009 at 7:09 your car was elsewhere, then I doubt you have a case.

Rearrange these words ... "wind the are into You pissing".

umit · Post by **umit** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:18 pm

I agree with Sinikala, if the traffic warden messed up with the dates that's not difficult to justify the correct date by checking the previous and next records. However, most of the time, officer mistakes invalidate the evidence in a court process. In any case, again like Sinikala said, I wouldn't piss against the wind and pay the ticket.

marcool · Post by **marcool** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:48 pm

I'll pay it for sure. But as jas_rho was saying, it doesn't hurt to complain afterwards. It's not like dealing with a crook. If they think I'm right they'll get me the money back.

FinnBrit · Post by **FinnBrit** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:52 pm

marcool wrote:It's not like dealing with a crook.

There was a famous case in England where a lawyer received a parking ticket but saw that the traffic warden that issued the ticket wasn't wearing their hat. Said lawyer did some research into the by-laws and discovered that a warden can only issue a ticket when in uniform. A description of a uniform was included as an attachment - and included the hat. The lawyer successfully appealed the ticket on the grounds that the warden was out of uniform and was therefore unable to write a ticket.

That's a crook.

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