Thread: help needed for disabled driver

took my mother to cardiff on the 25 july parked in the disabled bay displayed the blue badge correctly on the front of the dashboard like you do, got the wheelchair out went shopping had a nice day came back to the car found a fixed penalty notice for not displaying a disable badge????? the ticket was in fact placed over the blue badge upon reading the ticket i also found that it hasn't even got the correct reg mark mine ends in p this ends in r
im not going to ignore it im going to ring them and have a go i did take a photo of it on my mobile and got an independant witness who was parked behind me in the same bays displaying his badge the same way
am i right in thinking that this notice for £30 issued by south wales police is invalid because it hasn't got the right reg mark. What are my chances of getting this quashed.

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Hi

Perhaps someone else who was illegally parked put the ticket on your windscreen ? I would contest it.

Good luck

JB

The offence is not displaying a blue badge correctly, so it may be a case that the clock or badge was not displayed as the law requires or the badge had expired.

it may be a dodgy CEO who covered the blue badge and then took a photo.
only the OP knows.

BUT if the badge was out of date or no clock then the CEO should have taken a photo that shows this - covering it up doesn't seem a logical thing to do as it hides the evidence that the CEO needs to show.

Originally Posted by lamma

it may be a dodgy CEO who covered the blue badge and then took a photo.
only the OP knows.

BUT if the badge was out of date or no clock then the CEO should have taken a photo that shows this - covering it up doesn't seem a logical thing to do as it hides the evidence that the CEO needs to show.

I didn't realise South Wales Police employed CEOs??

Originally Posted by lamma

it may be a dodgy CEO who covered the blue badge and then took a photo.
only the OP knows.

BUT if the badge was out of date or no clock then the CEO should have taken a photo that shows this - covering it up doesn't seem a logical thing to do as it hides the evidence that the CEO needs to show.

The op suggested it was issued by the police, we also as you rightly state need to know weather the badge is valid.

the blue badge is valid until 2010 it was clearly displayed with the clock in one of those leather wallet type covers which opens out flat to display both it was the correct way up displayed on the front dash board drivers side just in front of the steering wheel i checked all the cars near me and they had exactly the same thing i'm all for disabled persons rights but didn't know that the south wales police had employed visually impaired people to patrol their parking bays plus as i said the last letter of the reg mark was wrong so maybe they are employing dyslexic persons as well, the parking ticket says fixed penalty notice south wales police (non endorsable offence) fine £30quid which i'm not going to pay at all but can't contact them till monday the only phone number on the ticket was to the payment dept so i rang cardiff central and was told that i would have to go through the switchboard to get to the officer in charge of parking