Fury as driver, 89, gets ticket while having booster jab
AN 89-YEAR-OLD man was slapped with a parking ticket at a vaccination centre car park as he was being given his Covid booster jab.
A volunteer marshal at Ramsbottom
Civic Hall, which has been used as a vaccination centre for nearly a year, said she was appalled.
Jackie Griffiths, 61, has been a volunteer outdoor marshal at the centre for several months. She said the issue of enforcement officers targeting cars started last month.
“Once all the car park bays are taken, there’s an area where people park within the confines of the car park,” she said.
“I don’t see a problem with that, but it’s not marked bays. That is where people are getting tickets.
“An 89-year-old man got ticketed in this way. I was standing by the hall and I noticed an elderly gentleman looking perturbed.
“He was at the top of the hill looking at the car park signs. I asked if he was okay. He was very upset and said he’d been given a ticket as he couldn’t find anywhere else to park.
“I spoke to the management of the vaccination centre, who were also upset and they contacted the
council who came down. I believe they said there was nothing they could do as they had to park in marked bays.”
Jackie added: “The council has provided these great facilities as a vaccination centre while at the same time you’ve got these flipping car parking attendants working against
the whole principle of ease of vaccination.” A spokesman for Bury council said: “We have had a number of reports of cars being damaged due to drivers trying to negotiate other people’s poor parking. If anyone feels they have wrongly been issued with a parking fine, we would advise them to lodge an appeal via the process outlined on the ticket.”