northern parking ticket

jdesbt

hi

i was in belfast 2 weeks ago today and got a parking fine (i had paid but seems i was in a loading bay even tho i saw no signs of it)
so i got a fine of 60 but 30 if i paid within 2 weeks. i tried to pay it online today but it wouldnt work for me..

my question is if i ignore it at this stage what will happen

thanks..
j

chopser

jdesbt wrote: »

hi

i was in belfast 2 weeks ago today and got a parking fine (i had paid but seems i was in a loading bay even tho i saw no signs of it)
so i got a fine of 60 but 30 if i paid within 2 weeks. i tried to pay it online today but it wouldnt work for me..

my question is if i ignore it at this stage what will happen

thanks..
j

It will go up to 60
Yeah that sounds right.

jdesbt

what will happen if i dont pay it..

i forgot to say im from yhe south and it was a southern car

BrianD

If there is a telephone number on the ticket, ring it.

jdesbt

BUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF I IGNORE IT

Ken.

What will happen if you ignore it is if you go to the north again and are stopped by the PSNI they will check and see you've an outstanding ticket. You will be arrested and brought to a police station where you will have to pay the fine(plus any other penalties that arise out of not paying a ticket in the north). Person i know had this happen to them and a £30 parking ticket turned into nearly £200 when penalties were attached.

jdesbt

THANKS FOR THE INFO

Gene Hunt

I suggest you pay the fine, cars from Southern Ireland are logged on the PSNI ANPR data base once an offence is commited or a verbal warning has been given by an police officer to a driver, your vehicle will be flagged should you not pay once a police car meets your car on the road in Northern Ireland ,they will clamp your vehicle there and then and they have even started to 'sell' your fine on to debt collectors due to the amount of South cars not paying fines.
It's easier just to pay however you are intitled to appeal the fine if you feel you have been fined in the wrong.
Gene.

Carawaystick

lucyfur09 wrote: »

What will happen if you ignore it is if you go to the north again and are stopped by the PSNI they will check and see you've an outstanding ticket. You will be arrested and brought to a police station where you will have to pay the fine(plus any other penalties that arise out of not paying a ticket in the north). Person i know had this happen to them and a £30 parking ticket turned into nearly £200 when penalties were attached.

If your car is old, transfer the registration i.e. sell it to someone with the same name and same address, could be your child or parent perhaps....

Our man in Havana

lucyfur09 wrote: »

What will happen if you ignore it is if you go to the north again and are stopped by the PSNI they will check and see you've an outstanding ticket. You will be arrested and brought to a police station where you will have to pay the fine(plus any other penalties that arise out of not paying a ticket in the north). Person i know had this happen to them and a £30 parking ticket turned into nearly £200 when penalties were attached.

But if the car is sold, they would have no way of knowing.

In any event there is no way the PSNI will get involved in a council parking matter.

I would ignore it.

BrianD

Carawaystick wrote: »

If your car is old, transfer the registration i.e. sell it to someone with the same name and same address, could be your child or parent perhaps....

All that hassle for a £30 fine????

12 element

BrianD wrote: »

All that hassle for a £30 fine????

Does this work!? What hassle is it? Just the price of a postage stamp!

Our man in Havana

No need to do anything.

LordSutch

Our man in Havana wrote: »

No need to do anything.

Fair enough if he has no intention of ever visiting NI again, but if he does intend to go back then he should ba warned that if the Police ever stop him & discover who he is, then (as others have said), he will be arrested & brought to the local Police station & charged with parking fine evasion!

Our man in Havana

Bull. The police have no role in decriminalised parking matters.

LordSutch

OK, I stand corrected.

jdesbt

im rarely in the north and i genuinly think i was wrongly fined or at least harshly fined so i think i will ignore it.

id say it would be way too much hassle to apeal it.

thanks guys