For entering Yellow Boxes, making illegal turns, travelling in bus lanes, is you council here ? mine is !
Is YOUR council collecting fines for driving offences?
YES:
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Yes
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NO:
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Our local district council isn't listed so I don't know but it says Lincolnshire, which is the County Council, isn't collecting fines.
Sorry the list is long it didn't come out the way I copied it !
Yes! Bus and tram gates catch lots out.
Fines from speed cameras went to central government so my local council stopped maintaining them. They are still there but they don't issue tickets.
The police do still operate vans with cameras in which are carefully placed when and where maximum revenue is available rather than where there are potential hazards which should of course be corrected anyway.
There are bus lanes and crosshatch junctions but I don't think that they are enforced.
My mate was just approaching Brighton when an ambulance came up behind her with the lights flashing.. She moved over to let it pass..
She received notice by post that she had entered a bus lane and was fined..
Quote from: Scrumpy on March 21, 2024, 08:23:41 AMMy mate was just approaching Brighton when an ambulance came up behind her with the lights flashing.. She moved over to let it pass..
She received notice by post that she had entered a bus lane and was fined..
Oddly enough, this is clearly stated in the Highway Code somewhere. Or at least I think it is, as we discussed it during my speed awareness course 🤭) a couple of years ago.
Quote from: dextrous63 on March 22, 2024, 07:57:47 PMspeed awareness course
A very badly named course indeed. Should be called a speed camera awareness course.
Quote from: Scrumpy on March 21, 2024, 08:23:41 AMMy mate was just approaching Brighton when an ambulance came up behind her with the lights flashing.. She moved over to let it pass..
She received notice by post that she had entered a bus lane and was fined..
This just goes to show that such rules these days are nothing to do with common sense, but all a matter of collecting money from people by any means possible.
What a country this has become. I'm so glad that I have lived most of my life over the years when this was a country to be proud of.
Quote from: dextrous63 on March 22, 2024, 07:57:47 PMOddly enough, this is clearly stated in the Highway Code somewhere. Or at least I think it is, as we discussed it during my speed awareness course 🤭) a couple of years ago.
Indeed it is, it's also an offence to pull in & mount the pavement or move through a red light if the ambulance can't get through until you do.
The only time you can contravene traffic regulations is when an ambulance has a police escort & the police tell you to move through a red light etc.
Quote from: Diasi on March 22, 2024, 09:55:45 PMIndeed it is, it's also an offence to pull in & mount the pavement or move through a red light if the ambulance can't get through until you do.
The only time you can contravene traffic regulations is when an ambulance has a police escort & the police tell you to move through a red light etc.
I didn't know that ! I've inched thru a red light to make space for an ambulance. :rolleyes:
The only time you'd get caught is by council money gthering cameras. Look on it as extra rates.
I recall a story a few years ago where a doctor pulled over to attend to a motorcyclist who had come off his bike and clearly needed help while waiting for the ambulance. The doctor was given a ticket for parking on a double yellow line, even though the twat of a parking enforcement officer who issued it could see what was going on a few feet away.
jobsworths!
Quote from: dextrous63 on March 23, 2024, 09:50:19 AMI recall a story a few years ago where a doctor pulled over to attend to a motorcyclist who had come off his bike and clearly needed help while waiting for the ambulance. The doctor was given a ticket for parking on a double yellow line, even though the twat of a parking enforcement officer who issued it could see what was going on a few feet away.
I think the best thing people in that situation should do is pay the fine and head straight for the nearest newspaper, or even TV company.
Publicise and let them be damned.
As well as appealing the ticket.
Whilst trying to find (unsuccessfully so far) the story I referred to, I found this little beauty of a story..
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/traffic-warden-gives-man-parking-22662580
One could argue that this could have led to a charge of manslaughter had the fella died due to the additional stress?
I think this is the story you remembered
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086847/Driver-gets-110-parking-fine-helps-aid-motorbike-crash-victim.html
Matches well except the first aider wasn't a doctor
Possibly/probably. For some reason I had somewhere round Earl's Court that it happened. But it was a while ago and age does what age does to one's, er, memorythingamagig