Can I Challenge This Parking Ticket???

[krisskross]

Help.

I just received a parking fine in the post and was totally mystified about when I had parked illegally.

I looked at the images online (it was taken by CCTV so this was the first i knew of it). Turns out I received it when I stopped outside a friends house to drop her off. I received the fine for having 2 wheels on the pavement (no yellow line, red route, bus lane etc). I only stopped to let her out and we chatted in car for about ten min.

I am really upset- its £55 i don't have and did not realise i had done anything wrong.

If it's been issued by the police/council you're fairly stuffed. Parking on the pavement is obstruction, I remember learning you weren't meant to do it when I was learning to drive. Sorry, because I know most of us do it sometimes (I do it twice a day outside one particular client's house).

Found this article which might help - it seems to say that the law varies across the UK, so might be worth finding out what the law says in your LA www.confused.com/car-insurance/articles/parking-on-a-pavement-watch-out-for-new-laws

Was there a reason you had to park on the pavement though?

thanks dame and sir.

tbh to describe me as parked on the pavement is rather over stating it- i pulled in the let her out and part of the two pavement side wheels were on the pavement a bit- certainly not the whole wheel or anything. it was a split second thing- i just pulled in to let her out.

thanks for the article sir- we are in london so looks like i'm stuffed.

i'm really hacked off- its a wide pavement there was still room for a wheelchair and double buggy to pass. outside my mums 2 miles away people regularly park completely on pavement so even a single pedestrian cannot pass. seems rather arbitrary.

ps sorry for another question
is there a difference between being parked and stopping and not leaving the car? Could this be a challenge?

Thanks

Have you tried googling 'Highway Code' and seeing if you can find the relevant laws?

If you're definitely allowed to stop there I'd challenge it if there was only a tiny amount on the pavement.

aaaahaha, so frustrating. I'll check the council website later. But it says on the letter no parking allowed on pavement at all.

Oh that's a bummer

You were parked, for whatever reason and length of time on the pavement, even if the whole of the car was not on the pavement parts of it were. You got caught, so pay up !

You parked for 10 minutes plus. The fact you didn't know you couldn't isn't here nor there I'm afraid.

Apparently you can't park on any part of the pavement in London at all - rules less clear elsewhere but definitely all of London.

thanks for your thoughts......i won't be doing that again.

I live in London, and in my area of London (LBWF) you can park on the pavement, but only where it is signposted and the pavement marked. It is a bit of a pain as it makes one of the pavements very narrow on the school run.

I got a ticket for exactly the same thing. Really annoying (I only put my wheels on the pavement out of courtesy to a motorist wanting to get by - if I hadn't shifted onto the pavement for them, I'd have been fine as it was a legal place to be stopped!) but ultimately my fault so I paid it.