Thanks twofoot... I thought there was something fishy here so your advice is much appreciated!

I'll draft up a letter asap to send. (Or try to find one on here if a template is available?)

Charged maybe maybe not but if you leave it for them to come and find you, you will be arrested remember you saw him getting up so you should of stopped to check he was ok and not driven off.

 

The fact he got up within seconds says he was ok to me... If he was on the floor I would have done something! I'm not that evil! :-|

 

All this because you could not be bothered to pay a couple of quid for a ticket.

 

Yes thanks... As I keep reminding myself too!!!!

or he could have jumped out of the way and/or stumbled.

 

In any case, I do think a visit to the police station and explaining your version will go in your favour.

Yeah this is it!.... Its me who is filling in the blanks from the before and after as I never actually seen it happen, I was looking out of the back window at the time, and I never heard a bump at all, not a thing... And its not like the car radio was on or anything - it wasn't.

Him falling over is a real possibility if you had seen where my car was parked... (On a slope, dodgy broken tarmac/gravel ground)

I don't have any expectations of not being fined over the parking, but I would hate to get myself in trouble with the Police over this accident, and it was a complete accident....

The situation leaves me with a huge dilemma, this happened two weeks ago, so if I visit the police station I am sure to be charged with leaving the scene of an accident, but the alternative is to wait and see what happens...

Catch 22, both are bad by the looks of it...

Hi,

Thanks for replying...

I know its a crap situation - trust me, thats why I'm here ... You know one morning all is going well, and then life deals you a bad card from out of no where... Well, that's how I feel. Its not something I wanted to do on purpose and I was in a complete panic at the time!

The guy was actually standing by the side of my car (looking at the tax disk), not in front or behind, not that makes it much better, but please don't think I "ran him over"... (He was pushed over rather than knocked over) The guy was back on his feet in seconds...

I haven't heard a thing yet, not a letter from the council (or Police) about the incident and not even a Parking Fine as yet....

I'm so worried about this, but I don't want to dig a whole for myself with the Police ever - I can't help thinking they would have called round to my house by now if they were to be involved???

Likewise I was at least expecting a ticket, but this happened nearly two weeks ago now and I don't know when I should expect it through...

Yes I gather it wasn't my finest moment!

Saying that, please don't go OTT - running him over I did not do! ...

Hi,

I have only just checked my Credit Report (online free service - annualcreditreport.co.uk), and I noticed that I have two defaults which appear to be for the same debt.

One was from Cahoot, and the other from Lowell. I've gave the basic details below.

Cahoot

Account Opened 24 August 2002

Last Updated 30 June 2008

Account Terms Monthly repayments

Payments Started 29 February 2004

Opening Balance £1,677

Current Balance Closed 30 June 2008

Lowell

Account Opened 24 August 2002

Last Updated 19 November 2008

Account Terms Monthly repayments

Payments Started Not Recorded

Opening Balance £1,677

Current Balance Not Recorded

I have read on this forum that one company shouldn't register a default twice for the same account, but what happens when its two companies which are referring to the same debt?

Any help is very much appreciated!

Hi,

I know this was naughty of me, but I parked in a (Council) town centre car park without purchasing a ticket. I was literally there for all of two minutes so I parked the car and ran into the shop quickly before returning to find a parking warden beside my car.

I was absolutely livid and couldn't believe it, and I said you can't do this I stopped the literally seconds but he continued to ignore me and kept on tapping in information to his little computer.

It was at this point I noticed his little machine spurt out a piece of paper, and I thought to myself oh my God he hasn't actually "ticketed" my car.

So I jumped in the car, whacked it in reverse and put my foot down trying to get away before he had chance to stick the ticket to my car. Anyway's in the process of reversing out of the parking space I must have accidentally knocked him over, because when I looked forward again he was just getting up off his back side and had started talking into his radio. (No doubt reporting me to someone or other)

Not wishing to hang about I pretended not to notice and left the car park.

This all happened the Thursday before last (12th), and so far I have not heard nothing from the council about the issue which is a little surprising given the incident which also took place - I don't think they're going to let me off!

Can anyone give me any advice, what should I expect from this?