“I was fined in a parking lot even though I had paid” – no one knows this rule

This little-known reason causes some motorists to be fined even if they have paid for their parking.

Pay for your parking space in accordance with the rules and get fined. This mishap doesn't just happen to others. And motorists who have experienced it will tell you, this experience is quite annoying. Already, parking prices in big cities are most of the time overpriced, it also happens that good payers receive a report in their mailbox a few days later. Enough to raise eyebrows, especially when we know the amount of fines in certain cities.

Since each municipality can freely set the price of FPS (post-parking package) in the event of non-payment or exceeding the duration, i.e. 1^is January 2018, the price of fines soared. In Paris, it reaches 75 euros in the first eleven arrondissements and 50 euros in the other nine… Obviously, it is always possible to contest a fine provided you have kept your parking ticket, which we strongly recommend.

If the error is human, it is also with machines, and when the municipality recognizes a computer bug, then the report is canceled. But there are also certain specificities that escape most people, and we can be wrong even when we believe we are in the right. Some motorists have had the bitter experience of receiving, a few days after paying for their parking, a letter in which was indicated in the square reserved for the description of the offense: IRREGULAR PARKING IN PAY PARKING ZONE: TIME STAMP TICKET IMPROPERLY PLACED . A motif which, inevitably, never goes down very well.

What does the Highway Code say about this? It stipulates that the parking ticket must be visible from the sidewalk without coming off the roadway. It must therefore be placed on the inside of the windshield, on the curb side, to facilitate inspection by Public Road Surveillance Officers (ASVP). If the latter cannot read it from the sidewalk (and they are a little zealous) then they have the right to issue a ticket which will be very difficult to contest. Especially since this rule is often specified in the paid parking conditions of municipal decrees.

For the many motorists who carelessly place their parking ticket on the dashboard of their car, we can only advise you enough from now on to take the time to put it in the right place and especially in the right direction so that it can be read. easily. This will prevent you from collecting a fine and ultimately paying for your parking for nothing. Tell yourself that this will be increasingly rare since it is no longer necessary to use a ticket in many cities, where control agents directly scan license plates to find out if payments have been made. carried out.