Taxi driver hit with £60 parking fine after stopping outside McDonald’s for 47 seconds to pick up a customer
- Kam Parvez, 33, from Stoke-on-Trent fined £60 for stopping outside a McDonald’s
- The taxi driver successfully overturned the fine after winning the second appeal
- The DVLA made £24million selling driver details to private companies last year
A taxi driver has been handed a £60 parking fine after stopping outside a McDonald’s branch 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 to be hit with the parking fine at the Springfield Retail Park branch.
Mr Parvez received the fine after parking operator iPark Services said he parked on yellow ‘keep clear’ markings near the entrance to the McDonald’s car park.
He managed to overturn the penalty after winning a second appeal.
Kam Parvez, 33, from Stoke-on-Trent, was slapped with a £60 parking fine after he stopped outside a McDonald’s branch for just 47 seconds.
Mr Parvez successfully overturned the fine after winning a second appeal
He was then able to prove that he had never parked on the “keep clear” markings, as the company suggested.
He said: “I was there for 47 seconds, including the U-turn and loading the customer into the vehicle. I was parked outside the restricted area. The customer was already waiting on the side of the road.
“They rejected my appeal and included a map of the site. There the area has a red line that goes all the way to the McDonald’s entrance. It’s bigger than the area they marked out on the road. I want the public to know.
“They told me it was because I entered the marked area and parked there. But I wasn’t parked in the ‘keep clear’ zone, I parked outside of that zone. “, According to 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 sold £24million to private parking firms and local authorities last year.
This resulted in fines of £2.6billion for motorists.
Requests from local authorities, including councils and Transport for London, exceeded 15.29 million over the same period.
Penalties range from as little as £25 for a parking ticket issued outside London and paid within 14 days, to £160 for a breach of red road rules in the capital.
