Can I get a parking fine while in my car?

gaduktos

I was standing on a parking spot without a ticket and I have notice a parking men is printing something from a some kind of machine so I drown away, he haven't given me a ticket.

So the parking man can give me a fine while I am still in the car, should I expect a parking fine in the post????

GerardKeating

gaduktos wrote: »

I was standing on a parking spot without a ticket and I have notice a parking men is printing something from a some kind of machine so I drown away, he haven't given me a ticket.

So the parking man can give me a fine while I am still in the car, should I expect a parking fine in the post????

in theory, yes, but they would have to prove you did not have a ticket, and did the come close enough to verify this ?

Tzardine

Your car was parked. (Does not matter that you were in it )

You had no ticket.

You get a Parking fine.

It's a bit of a mean thing to do in fairness but it's perfectly fine*


*Pun intended.

ForestFire

If you are in your car is there not two perfectly good reasons for not having a ticket??

1) You have just arrived and you are preparing (coat, phone, finding change for machine) to get out of car and get a ticket?

2) You have just returned to your car, you have removed the ticket from the dash and you are preparing to leave (Adjust seat, checking mirrors etc.)?

Unless the parking officer is monitoring you for a long period of time to be sure you are not doing this?

Also is there not a 3min grace period to allow you to actually leave you car go to the machine and get a ticket?

Mrs OBumble

How long were you standing there?

coylemj

Where did this happen as in which local authority area - Dublin city/Dun Laoghaire etc.

Dun Laoghaire gives 15 minutes grace before and after i.e. after you park you have 15 minutes to sort out a ticket and when it expires, you have 15 minutes to get back and move the car.

TheBandicoot

gaduktos wrote: »

a parking men is printing something from a some kind of machine so I drown away

RIP OP.

L1011

ForestFire wrote: »

Also is there not a 3min grace period to allow you to actually leave you car go to the machine and get a ticket?

What grace there is is down to the parking bye laws in place. DLR Council's are hugely generous, otheres have none.

n97 mini

You're not parked if you are in your car, you are stopped. You can't get parking fines while stopped.

That's the theory, though the Maor Trachtála in Balbriggan was infamous a few years ago for giving parking fines to vehicles stopped at traffic lights.

Victor

n97 mini wrote: »

You're not parked if you are in your car, you are stopped.

You are either 'in traffic' (and you can be stopped 'in traffic') or 'parked'. There is nothing else.

testicle

Victor wrote: »

You are either 'in traffic' (and you can be stopped 'in traffic') or 'parked'. There is nothing else.

Is that a legal definition?

ezra_pound

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

How long were you standing there?

The word is parking. Cars can't stand and people can't stand in cars.

Victor

ezra_pound wrote: »

The word is parking. Cars can't stand and people can't stand in cars.

'Standing' a vehicle is parking it while waiting to enter service. Hence the terms 'taxi stand' and 'bus stand'.

n97 mini

Victor wrote: »

You are either 'in traffic' (and you can be stopped 'in traffic') or 'parked'. There is nothing else.

Same difference, you're either parked or not. Generally not considered parked while still at the wheel.