PPN threat

[bookcooker]

A little advice please. I went on holiday in August and left access to the usual crowd of rabble to use whilst I was away. Now I have received a PPN for parking at Gatwick MacDonalds on 21st August, whilst I was away. Pinching freely from your site is the following a decent reply to send?

 

Dear Sir or Madam,

 

I am in receipt of your invoice for parking at the (details of location) on the (insert date). I note you have written to me as the registered keeper of the vehicle. Please be advised that I could not have been the driver of the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence as I was out of the country on holiday.

As the registered keeper of the vehicle concerned that I have no liability whatsoever to pay your invoice. You need to contact the driver and invoice them directly.

 

Please do not correspond with me any further on this matter except to confirm that you will be not taking the matter any further with me as the registered keeper of the vehicle.

 

Yours sincerely

 

I want to attack them on the grounds of obtaining my personal details without leaving a letter on the vehicle, and also ask them to prove the vehicle was actually parked and not being driven round slowly, but wonder if briefness in reply is a better option. My wife is a worrier and hates the thought of being taken to court.

 

many thanks for any suggestions you can come up with

[Sidewinder]

A little advice please. I went on holiday in August and left access to the usual crowd of rabble to use whilst I was away. Now I have received a PPN for parking at Gatwick MacDonalds on 21st August, whilst I was away. Pinching freely from your site is the following a decent reply to send?

 

Dear Sir or Madam,

 

I am in receipt of your invoice for parking at the (details of location) on the (insert date). I note you have written to me as the registered keeper of the vehicle. Please be advised that I could not have been the driver of the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence as I was out of the country on holiday.

 

As the registered keeper of the vehicle concerned that I have no liability whatsoever to pay your invoice. You need to contact the driver and invoice them directly.

 

Please do not correspond with me any further on this matter except to confirm that you will be not taking the matter any further with me as the registered keeper of the vehicle.

 

Yours sincerely

 

I want to attack them on the grounds of obtaining my personal details without leaving a letter on the vehicle, and also ask them to prove the vehicle was actually parked and not being driven round slowly, but wonder if briefness in reply is a better option. My wife is a worrier and hates the thought of being taken to court.

 

many thanks for any suggestions you can come up with

 

The letter looks spot on. The Gatwick McDonalds and BP station are hotspots for [causing problems] motorists and probably catch hundreds of people each week - they use CCTV rather than ticketing, but strangely the taxis which use the car park to hover whilst waiting for fares to land rarely seem to get charged

 

They will probably ignore your letter, but stand your ground - clearly no contract could possibly exist as you were (and can prove the fact) out of the country and can never be successfully taken to court. Your wife can relax!