Daily Mirror

£130 parking fines for cancer ambulances

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TRAFFIC wardens are slapping tickets on ambulances carrying cancer patients when they stop at a hospital. Private ambulances and medical cars are hit with £130 fixed penalties for parking on double yellow lines at University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre, North West London. The site’s private transport contractor, G4S, has slammed the fines as “ridiculous” and “lacking common sense”.

One driver said: “It’s been going on for a couple of years. They don’t let us have five minutes’ peace before they give a ticket. There’s nowhere to put vehicles. We get three or four a day.” While ambulances on emergency calls can stop on double yellows, there is no allowance for medical transport vehicles.

But G4S’s Russell Hobbs said it was vital vehicles park close to the hospital.

Camden Council said: “We have not issued notices to any ambulances on duty providing an emergency service.”

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