TICKETING TRAVESTIES
CABBIE DELIVERING EMERGENCY BLOODS HIT WITH PARKING FINE AT MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY
A cabbie was hit with a parking fine while delivering emergency bloods to
Manchester Royal
Infirmary. Gary is self-employed, but works part-time for a firm he says regularly works in partnership with the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) to help deliver emergency bloods and X-rays. Attending MRI to deliver bloods on April 8, he says he parked next to an ambulance
before taking
supplies inside. He returned minutes later to see a fixed penalty notice on his windscreen. Gary said there was a sign inside his vehicle saying what he was there for - and who he works for.
He approached a ParkingEye worker, who told him he had received a ticket as he had parked in a blue badge spot - and because the sign wasn’t visible in the window. The ticket, Gary highlighted, states he parked in a designated ‘emergency
area’. Gary said. “I
pointed out that the sign was in the window and if they checked back on CCTV, they would see it there. Gary says he received a letter from ParkingEye informing him his appeal had been rejected. The letter said: “We have reviewed the details outlined in your appeal, but we are not in receipt of
sufficient evidence to confirm that the terms and conditions were not breached. These terms are clearly displayed on the signage located throughout the car park.” The letter then informed Gary that he had 14 days to pay £35 of the fine, before it would rise to the full amount of £70 - his wife paid the fine in full the next day. “I’ve never had anything like this before, I’m delivering blood, I’m working. We’ve got people’s records and bloods, I don’t think we should be parking in pay and display spaces to transport them, especially when it’s an emergency,” Gary added.
PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER AT BRISTOL AIRPORT CHARGED £260 FOR A THREE-MINUTE DROP OFF
A private hire driver claims he was mistakenly charged £260 for briefly dropping a customer off at Bristol Airport. Stuart Walters, a cabbie for over 25 years, says last week he collected a customer and dropped them off in the ‘drop and go’ zone next to the terminal. He then drove to the barrier and made a card payment, keeping the receipt. “I was in and out within three minutes,” said Mr Walters, who recalled entering his PIN after his contactless payment was rejected. He claims that he only realised how much he had been charged the following week, when he was doing his tax returns. He also noticed an error on a receipt for the previous day (May 15) which said he remained in the airport
PHTM JUNE 2023
carpark for 24 hours, but in this case he was charged £5 - the standard charge for staying in the carpark for up to ten minutes. He said: “I phoned Bristol Airport and said I’d been overcharged, they didn’t seem too surprised. I was advised to put in a complaint, but it takes 14 days for a response. “I can't be the only one who has been overcharged and if it wasn't for business reasons I would have
just taken the ticket, screwed it up and put it in my bin when I got home and may have not noticed it on my bank statement.” Photos of the receipts show a £5.00 charge dated May 16 with the length of stay listed as '1 days, 00:00', with the timings listed as 7.45pm on May 15 to 7.45pm on May 16. The other receipt dated May 17 shows a charge of £260.00, with the length of stay listed as '0 days, 12:07'. The timing is listed as 7.49pm on May 16 to 7.49am on May 17. Mr Walters said he “certainly wasn’t parked up the airport all day as I was back in Bristol working”. Bristol Airport has said it will “fully investigate” Mr Walters’ case if he has put his complaint in writing, and apologised if it turns out that he was overcharged.
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