Advice request: parking ticket following an accident

[IlonaM]

A friend of mine recently was knocked off his motorbike by a car and, having been injured, was unable to remove the damaged bike for several days from the verge of the road where it had been put following the accident. It had been removed from the road after the accident. He has received two parking tickets and they are refusing to waive them on the basis that he was unable to remove the damaged bike due to injury. He is going through the review process at the moment.

Has anyone had any experience of successfully challenging this kind of ticket which appears rather heavy-handed?

I would be grateful for any advice please.

[peckham_ryu]

Sorry I don?t know how best to specifically address that, other than to say that the Pepipoo website has been useful in the past. I have successfully appealed 3 parking tickets, but none for anything like your friend?s circumstances. The flip side is that I have had other tickets where Pepipoo simply confirmed I?d been had bang to rights! You have to pay for a subscription so worth bearing in mind it doesn?t make legitimate tickets go away - although it does show you how to really check if a ticket is legitimate, which quite often they are not.

I guess your friend is already checking whether the other party?s insurance should cover ?parking charges?, that is if they stopped, have insurance, and are at fault.

My sympathies.

[IlonaM]

Thanks for your helpful advice peckham_ryu. He has a crime number and insurer is pursuing other driver who refused to exchange details and left scene. He is rather exercised by the parking tickets as he was unable to deal with the bike himsef due to injure and had no one locally who was able to do it for him after the accident.

I will tell him to ask his insurer whether the parking fines might be covered under insurance.

[Melihoople]

How about also contacting local councillor?

[Jellybeanz]

Unfortunately it is often the case that you have to go to appeal in order for them to see sense.

Best wishes and good luc, sounds ridiculous and stressful!

[Inbound]

It makes me wonder at the mentality of the wardens who thought a smashed up motorcycle in the ditch was parked illegally!

I guess it must have made him/her feel great to be doing his civic duty?

[IlonaM]

Thanks for your advice everyone. I shall pass your advice on.

[Loz]

Inbound Wrote:

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> It makes me wonder at the mentality of the wardens

> who thought a smashed up motorcycle in the ditch

> was parked illegally!

> I guess it must have made him/her feel great to be

> doing his civic duty?

Playing Devil's Advocate, it was there for a week and warden wasn't to know that the owner was incapacitated.

[Renata Hamvas]

Hi Ilona,

I would suggest that your friend contacts their local councillors to help them (it's not clear if they live in the area from your posts).

Renata

[IlonaM]

Thank you for your advice, Renata. I will get him to get in touch with them. He is not too far from me (Underhill), but I'm not sure what ward he's in.