When Linda Trimble purchased her pay and display car parking ticket she had no
idea that she would be libel to pay a fixed penalty for placing the ticket in
the windshield upside down.
Linda who was taking her daughter to her dance lesson parked her car in Nottingham
City Centre with a valid Pay and Display ticket thought that she was safe from
Traffic wardens.
You can imagine her shock when she returned to the car with forty minutes remaining
before the ticket expired, to find that she had received a Fixed Penalty notice.
The reason was that the ticket was up side down;
A spokesman for Nottingham City Council is quote to have said, " Traffic
wardens are within their rights to penalise motorists who fail to display tickets
clearly". Officials say the fine will probably be withdrawn if Mrs Trimble
proves her ticket was valid.
In response Mrs Trimble said: " these tickets don't have sticky labels,
so it's very easy for them to be dislodged."
The question is, who is in the right, Mrs Trimble for purchasing a pay and
display ticket or the traffic warden for giving her the fixed penalty notice
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