A reader sent me this link from Autoblog about CCTV footage being used to issue automatic penalty charge notices.
It makes unpleasant reading – some drivers never actually stop, but are still issued with PCNs. Others stop for as little as 17 seconds. But only a small percentage (1%) of those caught bother to appeal.
In one case, a car approached an entry way but had to move out of another vehicle’s way, wait for a pedestrian, then another car before going in – but he was still ticketed.
It doesn’t say which councils the scam relates to – and it IS a scam, let’s not be in any doubt over that. These councils are lying and coercing people into doing things that they then fine them for (the camera cars even park on double yellow lines, to play on the monkey-see, monkey-do mentality of motorists).