Drivers slapped with 11 million parking tickets from private companies in brutal crackdown.
The number of parking tickets handed out to hard-pressed motorists by private firms has jumped by a shocking 29 per cent in just one year.
A record 11.1 million tickets were handed out between March 2022 and March 2023, according to new data from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
The data shows that an average of more than 30,400 penalty charge notices were handed out every day.
It is also a dramatic increase in the number of parking tickets in the past year when just 8.6 million fines were issued.
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A parking ticket can cost drivers £100, meaning over the past year, drivers could have paid out more than £1.1billion in fines.
Motoring organizations and drivers have accused private companies of being heavy-handed and not allowing drivers to have levels of protection when it comes to fines.
The Government passed legislation in March 2019 designed to deal with private companies targeting drivers and create a “code of practice”.
The code was first unveiled in February 2022 but was withdrawn after a legal challenge from private companies five months later.
Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, said not enough progress had been made to crack down on motorists being hammered with fines and PCNs.
He said: “In the four-and-a-half years since legislation was passed to create a single code of practice and address the worst excesses of private parking companies, as many as 36 million private parking charges may have been issued.
Drivers slapped with 11 million parking tickets in huge crackdown (gbnews.com)
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