Taxi driver fined £60 after stopping outside McDonald’s for 47 seconds to pick up a customer
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Taxi driver gets a £60 parking fine after stopping in front of McDonald’s for 47 seconds to pick up a customer
- Kam Parvez, 33, from Stoke-on-Trent is fined £60 for stopping outside a McDonald’s
- The taxi driver successfully reversed the fine after winning the second appeal
- The DVLA made £24 million last year selling driver data to private companies
A taxi driver was fined £60 for parking in front of a McDonald’s outlet for just 47 seconds.
Kam Parvez, 33, had gone to a branch in Stoke-on-Trent to pick up a customer.
Mr. Parvez was then stunned when he was slapped with the parking ticket at the Springfield Retail Park branch.
Mr Parvez was fined after parking operator iPark Services said he had parked on yellow ‘keep clear’ markers at the entrance to the McDonald’s car park.
He successfully reversed the sentence after winning a second appeal.
Kam Parvez, 33, from Stoke-on-Trent, was given a £60 parking ticket despite stopping just 47 seconds in front of a McDonald’s branch
Mr Parvez successfully overturned the fine after winning a second appeal
He was later able to prove that he had never parked on the company’s proposed “keep clear” markings.
He said, “I sat there for 47 seconds, including the U-turn and including loading the customer into the vehicle. I was parked outside the restricted area. The customer was already waiting at the side of the road.
“They rejected my objection and added a map. There, the area has a red line that goes all the way to the entrance of McDonald’s. It’s bigger than the area they marked on the road. I want the public to know.
“They told me it was because I had entered the marked area and parked there. But I wasn’t parked inside the ‘keep clear’ area, I parked outside that area.” Stoke on Trent Live.
McDonald’s declined to comment because the incident did not occur on its premises.
The incident comes after it was revealed that the DVLA made £24m from selling driver data to private parking companies and local authorities last year.
This resulted in fines worth £2.6 billion for motorists.
Requests from local authorities, including councils and Transport for London, exceeded 15.29 million over the same period.
The fines range from just £25 for a parking ticket issued outside London and paid within 14 days, to £160 for a breach of Red Route rules in the capital.