Parking disputes can turn extremely inconvenient as well as expensive for some people. A woman from Beacon Hill Retail Park, in Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK was slapped with a fine of??100 (RS 10,000) after she parked her vehicle in a free car park because it was too big.?
Tracey Carlisle, 57, was returning a faulty smoke alarm for her elderly mum, who suffers from dementia, when the parking ticket was issued to her.
According to reports, Tracey said that her 4X4 Nissan Navara was too big for any of the spaces and she had to park over two bays.?
She straddled the white lines so that she and her husband Graham, 61, could get out without hitting other cars' doors.?
After the couple returned to their car 15 minutes later, they found a ticket on their windscreen.?
"I am not denying that we were parked straddling a bay but it wasn't done to be inconsiderate. We drive a Nissan Navara, which is 5.3 metres long and nearly two metres wide so we wouldn't fit into a normal bay. I had bruising at the time and couldn't get out from the car properly so needed the extra space to open the door fully," she was quoted as saying by The Sun.
She said, "We know the car park, and the wall beside us means we are not sticking out into the flow of traffic. We always park aware of other people. We go in a corner where we can have two bays together so we can get in and out of the vehicle, as we need to get the doors wide open to get into it because it's high."
Tracey is a medical secretary has countered the fine given to her by parking company UKCPS on November 26 which could be reduced to??60 (Rs?6,056)?upon appeal.
She added, "It just leaves a nasty taste in your mouth, but I don't expect anything to change and I think I will just pay it because the letter is quite heavy-handed?
about if you don't. It says they can take action against you and it can affect your credit status and everything else. I'm never going back there again. I'll find somewhere else to park."??
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