Crashed car gets parking fine

**Voodoo Vince** · 16-08-2008, 06:33 AM

Crashed car gets parking fine

A motorist was given a £50 ticket for bad parking when her car was shunted into a tree by another driver.

Joanne Billington was fined by an overzealous traffic warden after her Ford Ka, which she'd left parked, was hit by another driver.

"I was absolutely devastated," the 27-year-old told Metro. "I just couldn't believe what had happened."

"It was obvious the car had been crashed into but I still got a fine. It's unbelievable that the attendant had the gall to issue one."

Amazingly, despite the front end of the car being in the bushes, the traffic warden claimed he thought it had been parked that way.

"Nobody parks their car like that,'" added Ms Billington, from Halifax.

An Oldham Council spokesman said the penalty had since been written off. "At the time of the incident the attendant did not know that the vehicle had been forced out of the bay," he said.

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