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  • 22-07-2010 04:53PM
    #1
    Milk & Honey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭


    What is the status of the 10 minute warning before clamping on public roads? Suppose someone parked in a clearway 5 minutes before it ceased to be a clearway. If they got a 10 minute warning there would be no offence after the 10 minutes.
    What if the clampers put on the clamp with no warning just before the clearway status changed?


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  • #2
    Reloc8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Reloc8


    No status - its a practice but nothing more than that and generally considered (well by me I suppose) to relate to a period of grace within which you can go and buy a parking ticket and not get clamped.

    Of course you can't buy a ticket to park in a clearway.

    Taking the view from the other side, the clamper doesn't know that someone parked in it 5 minutes ago - it could have been there for hours.


  • #3
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    Reloc8 wrote: »

    Taking the view from the other side, the clamper doesn't know that someone parked in it 5 minutes ago - it could have been there for hours.

    A simple test, the clamper puts thier hand on the bonnet of the car. If it's warm it has only just parked, if it's cold it's been there for a while.


  • #4
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    trad wrote: »
    A simple test, the clamper puts thier hand on the bonnet of the car. If it's warm it has only just parked, if it's cold it's been there for a while.

    What if its a not day?


  • #5
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    I presume you mean a hot day. The engine temperature will usually leave the bonnet warmer if the car has recently been parked. It's what I used as a guide when I was doing parking enforcement to figure out if some one was telling porkies about "only been parked for a minute". Hot bonnet benefit of the doubt, cold bonet parking ticket.


  • #6
    Reloc8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Reloc8


    That's fair enough - again, there is no particular status to the practice. You are in the hands of the individual clamper as to whether they want to give you a break, subject to any internal appeal you can make following payment.


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  • #7
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,652 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Milk & Honey wrote: »
    What is the status of the 10 minute warning before clamping on public roads? Suppose someone parked in a clearway 5 minutes before it ceased to be a clearway. If they got a 10 minute warning there would be no offence after the 10 minutes.
    What if the clampers put on the clamp with no warning just before the clearway status changed?
    Periods of grace vary, depending on the clamping authority's rules, e.g. wheelchair space = no grace for other vehicles, while a taxi might get some grace in a loading bay.


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