Parking permit fell off the windscreen overnight - do we have to pay the parking ticket?

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Will I have to pay

You can write grovelling letter and explain what happened. CRAP crappity crap.

You MUST write them a letter - don't just ignore it. Explain the situation & that you have a valid permit. & that they surely can't expect you to sit by your car all night to ensure this doesn't happen!
I have successfully contested unfair parking tickets. Often they'll waive it just to make you go away

I would say it's worth a shot. Not sure what the legal situation is tho'. I once had a ticket fall off my windscreen and the warden was still on the street when I returned so I nabbed her and she came with me to the car while I found said ticket which had slipped down windscreen and she told me who to write to and they let me off. However, with a permit, I think part of the obligation is not just having the permit but displaying it... so I think you'd have to hope for a nice official to believe that it was actually there and not in your handbag.
Sorry not much help, but as I say, it has to be worth a shot.

Write to whoever issued it and contest it.

I recently got a fine for £60 for "not displaying my parking ticket" however I had got a ticket -it was on my dash board (not a sticky backed ticket) and had blown over when I shut the car door.

I wrote off to the council (address on the fine paperwork) with a photocopy of my ticket and they have said I don't have to pay but gave me a verbal "slapped wrist"

No i don't think you do as long as you can prove you had a permit in date you should be fine, do you have a arking shop where you can go & speak to them?

this has happened to me and also to my plumber. in both cases we wrote - and sent a photocopy of the errant permit and they let us off, with a stern warning to make sure we display permits properly.

"barking" is that?

I have heard of people getting tickets (and subsequently having to pay ) when the permit was on display but upside down.

Worth objecting, and I hope they will be sensible and kind, but they may not be. Good luck.

The annoying thing is it is the permit holder the Council supply with the permit that is obviously cra* and doesnt stick propertly. Don't think I'll mention that tho.

I have got off a parking ticket before when it fell off the windscreen. I wrote a slightly snotty letter enclosing a photocopy of the ticket, and accusing them of using inadequate adhesive . They let me off. SO it's def worth a try.

THis actally happened to me twice BION (As I shut boot on car it blew ticket away). I wrote a very polite but grovelling letter (1st time I thought i would get away with it,and did, 2nd didnt think i would but really couldnt afford a ticket so thought it would stall time a little and again it worked) People can be human sometimes and its worth a try. Just remember to be polite

On second thoughts Mrs JC.. perhaps I will

I got a fine because the permit was put on the dashboard upside down.I wrote a letter saying my dim teenage dd did this,enclosed the permit and was let off.

I'm not suprised you got "let off" ggirl - that parking attendant was 'aving a larf. could he not read it upside down!

Write a letter and put in a photocopy of your permit. I had a similar ticket (my permit was on the dashboard but inspector didn't see it), and just wrote that `i have a valid permit, see enclosed'..ticket was cancelled.

hatwoman,I mean upside down with the macdonalds add on the back facing up.lol

ahhh. that's what dd did with mine!