What can i do about a rediculous penalty charge?

[carat 3.6]

Just to point out something that everyone seems to be overlooking, Marlbough road IS NOT a one way street!

This sort of road layout is very common in london, the width restriction is to stop hgv's using this road for access. But as an emergency unit may need to use the road, they are allowed to travel on the wrong side of the road to bypass the width restriction. The camera is there to stop any trucks doing the same.

They have fined you for driving on the wrong side of the road to bypass the width restriction.

[zipgun]

Not sure ..Drive up to the end of Marlborough road in streetview, turn round to go back down Marlborough rd ...and there are red "no entry signs" So ?? One way road or not ?? At the other end of Marlborough road (at the traffic lights) there are no blue "one way " signs though???
Its all a f'kin con to get money anyway. I feel for you .Its a petty offence , only you did cross a solid white line and hatched "island" to go through the wide bit.
Google- Islington penalty charges...interesting !

[carat 3.6]

Jan 17, 2014 23:42:46 GMT zipgun said:

Not sure ..Drive up to the end of Marlborough road in streetview, turn round to go back down Marlborough rd ...and there are red "no entry signs" So ?? One way road or not ?? At the other end of Marlborough road (at the traffic lights) there are no blue "one way " signs though???
Its all a f'kin con to get money anyway. I feel for you .Its a petty offence , only you did cross a solid white line and hatched "island" to go through the wide bit.
Google- Islington penalty charges...interesting !

Marlbough road is normal 2 way road, there is even a traffic light to control the exit onto the a103. What is confusing people, is that only cyclists are allowed to enter from the Sussex road end.

[Porsche]

After looking on Google Maps/Street-view myself, I can see that this road isn't a one way street at all. There are no entry signs at the one end of the road, but there is also a sign saying that this a cycle route, so cyclists could be comming in the opposite direction and would have to ride through the fire access section towards you. Now I think it's no good saying that at the time when you were driving through there that there wasn't any, as you didn't notice the road signs, so how can you say you 100% know that there wasn't any cyclists? I think you should pay the fine and put it down to experience before you get done for driving without due care too.

Surely if you pay promptly, the fine would be reduced?

[datman]

aah yes Islington, tell me about it. *someone i know ahem* received a huge fine for unbenown to them venturing just a few yards in a congetsion zone (an area which has since been scrapped) the fine didn't arrive for 3 months. If they had simply asked for the £8 to be subsequently paid I (i mean, this person) would have coughed up, but Being so annoyed at the obscene amount of robbery of around £100 the person decided to pull a little shuck & jive, as they say on the Dukes of Hazzard. The person wrote back saying they were never in London, and their reg must have been cloned. The penalty people then asked for a photo of their car... so they found a similar but not the same car parked in the street, went home and got their numberplate and some sticky pads, and went back to the parked car, stuck the plate over the cars plate and took some photos. The car differed to the one on the CCTV in that it was a different shade, and had different dents, different window stickers and also had a tow bar.

It worked. Now i'm not suggesting for a moment you do this.. becuase its depriving poor old islington of their ill gotten gains but there is also another way that *this person* got off a 36 in a 30 at 2am speeding fine. They simply wrote in saying the car had been exported to Ireland, the day before the 'offence' and since there is no requirement to notify DVLA of the address of the new keeper when sending form off for export, you did not take their address. Just say it was John something maybe. Or was it patrick. They're unlikely to check with DVLA, but invite them to do so, but don't blame me if it doesn't work.

[composimmonite]

Jan 18, 2014 13:12:10 GMT datman said:

It worked. Now i'm not suggesting for a moment you do this.. becuase its depriving poor old islington of their ill gotten gains but there is also another way that *this person* got off a 36 in a 30 at 2am speeding fine. They simply wrote in saying the car had been exported to Ireland, the day before the 'offence' and since there is no requirement to notify DVLA of the address of the new keeper when sending form off for export, you did not take their address. Just say it was John something maybe. Or was it patrick. They're unlikely to check with DVLA, but invite them to do so, but don't blame me if it doesn't work.

Surely that is akin to shooting yourself in the foot. DVLA will note the records accordingly so you can't use the car in the UK again otherwise ANPR cameras / Police will flag it up. OK if car is worthless and can be scrapped but probably cheaper to admit the speeding and pay the fine if a decent car.

Paul h

[datman]

Thats if you ACTUALLY send the thing to DVLA. Just fill the form, photograph it and send pic to the penalty people. Might be enough.

Hmm thinking out loud now.. what if you did actually export it, then you a: write to dvla and apologise that u did it in error as u used the log book for the wrong vehicle,

Well worst case .. you reimported it (on paper) haha, have to pay £55 registration fee though LOL. Thats still a 50% saving

I love hearing of the ways people tackle these tyrranical authorities, I heard one where someone with some legal knowhow threatened to take action against the parking people for advertising on his property without permission, because the fixed penalty notice attached to his vehicle displayed the logo and name of the company or council or whatever. He aggreed to drop the action if they dropped the penalty, which they did.

On a personal note, I paid for a very unfair parking ticket in 1 pence coins recently.
I was worried they'd try to make me wait while they counted them so I made like I was a courier, boxed up the 7,500 coins and made a consignment note and made them sign it after i dumped the box at their desk.

[MK2VR6]

Unfortunate mistake to make. The lane on the left looks almost like a glorified cycle lane, so I can see why you made your choice on the spur of the moment. I was only wondering just the other day if your 626 was still on the road. Great to see the old girl in action, even if the photos were expensive!

[trouble]

Jan 17, 2014 14:31:06 GMT Porsche said:

The fine does seem very expensive, but I'd say you've been caught bang to rights.

We drive on the left in this country, there's a big blue keep left sign, a bollard with the same keep left sign on it. There's even a camera warning sign.

If you ignored these signs at a roundabout, you'd say fair dues...sorry mate.

This ^

[delica16]

just pay it ,you wont win an arguement with them !

[composimmonite]

Jan 19, 2014 14:11:19 GMT datman said:

Thats if you ACTUALLY send the thing to DVLA. Just fill the form, photograph it and send pic to the penalty people. Might be enough.

Hmm thinking out loud now.. what if you did actually export it, then you a: write to dvla and apologise that u did it in error as u used the log book for the wrong vehicle,

Well worst case .. you reimported it (on paper) haha, have to pay £55 registration fee though LOL. Thats still a 50% saving

I love hearing of the ways people tackle these tyrranical authorities, I heard one where someone with some legal knowhow threatened to take action against the parking people for advertising on his property without permission, because the fixed penalty notice attached to his vehicle displayed the logo and name of the company or council or whatever. He aggreed to drop the action if they dropped the penalty, which they did.

On a personal note, I paid for a very unfair parking ticket in 1 pence coins recently.
I was worried they'd try to make me wait while they counted them so I made like I was a courier, boxed up the 7,500 coins and made a consignment note and made them sign it after i dumped the box at their desk.

You were lucky.
Max amount of payment in 1p's is 20p. Any more than that and they aren't obliged to accept -
www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/legal-tender-guidelines

Paul H

[datman]

some were 2p, how many 2p i wonder? anyway, another reason to leave it and run.. i'd make them courier the box back to me if they refused it.

[00mike00]

Ha...Righteous Rides!
I have paid the penalty...I never said i was going to contest it, i was just feeling out what people's opinions of it were and if i should bother. I've won a number of battles against the bribes in place for petty allegations and this was a new one for me.
The signs quite clearly (when looking on street view) show that you should go left through the narrow section but like any council full of robot workers, human error is never a consideration.
I tried hard to recall this road during my trip and from memory I was thinking so much about trying to find a parking space (to visit my fiance's grandmother), when traveling on this road the car's either side narrowed the road so I was almost in the middle. When i spotted this section of road required me to quickly turn to the left to pass through the narrow section, I didn't see the small arrow signs and the road marking wasn't all too clear.

[omega]

^^^^
id quit if I was you as you have just admitted driving without due care and attention.

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