I’m fuming at my £100 parking fine after machine printed the wrong time on my ticket – I won’t pay it
A DISABLED gran has hit out at a car parking company after she was slapped with a £100 fine – despite allegedly having two hours remaining on her ticket.
Jacquie Wright, 59, couldn’t believe her ears when workers reportedly told her she had not bought a ticket at the car park in Evesham, Worcestershire.
At 12.01pm, the divorcee claims she spent £2 for a three-hour stay on November 24 and departed at 1.09pm – leaving her just under two hours left on her ticket.
Jacquie then reportedly received a letter from Euro Car Parks a week later demanding she pay £100, claiming the gran had spent a total of one hour and 13 minutes in the car park without a valid ticket.
Despite allegedly forwarding proof of her purchase with first three letters of her registration plate, Jacquie was rebuffed.
“The letter says I entered the car park at 11.56am, which sounds about right as I had an appointment at Specsavers at midday,” she claimed.
“I had paid the £2 fee which gave me until 3.01pm which was ample time.
“I left after about an hour and headed to Broadway to visit a friend.
“As far as I was concerned I’d paid for three hours but only used an hour of that time.
“The machine printed off the last three digits of my reg number so it proves I bought the ticket for my car.
“I was shocked when I received a fine from this company a week later.
“The CCTV from the car park even proves my case because I stayed for just over an hour – well within the time limit I had paid for.
“I called the company but with no success. I even tried to fill in the appeal section on their website but it kept crashing.”
Jacquie, who lives with chronic spinal condition spongylitis, says she refused to pay the deadline fee on December 30.
She continued: “I am worried about it going to court, but there’s no way I’m going to pay it – I will fight this to the end.
“They can threaten me with court action, bailiffs or whatever but they should know they have a fight on their hands.
“I am in the right. I have the proof I bought a ticket in that car park and they have proof I left the car park well within the time limit.”