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Dear All.
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide on this one, it's a very close friend who's in his 70s, even though he makes reference to his girlfriend
His predicament is as follows, in his own words:
"On September 16th, 2019, I drove my girlfriend from my home in Bethnal Green to Heathrow, obviously intending to avoid the congestion zone, which until then I had never entered. But a motorcycle accident near the Gray’s Inn Road meant the police set up a diversion; one effect was to steer me briefly into the congestion zone. Within a week I had a notice through the post that I had incurred two penalties, one for breaching the zone, the other for driving a car – a Ford Fiesta manufactured un 1999 - that apparently did not comply with legal emissions. The letter from TfL demanded fines totalling £80.00 On September 24th, using my Barclays credit card, I paid this sum, and put the whole event down to sheer bad luck. On February 24th, 2020, I received a letter from a debt collection agency called Equita demanding that I pay them an outstanding sum of £323.00 outstanding. They were acting for TfL, which claimed I had an outstanding bill for non-payment of the fine incurred on September 16, 2019 amounting to £248.00 – TfL’s account reference number is XXXXX Equita, in a note dated February 18th, 2020, threatens that if I have not paid £323.00 - including their compliance fee of £75.00 - by 17.30 on February 25th (that is, tomorrow) an enforcement agent will visit me and may ‘seize my belongings’ this is called ‘taking control’ They intend to send in a bailiff. I immediately phoned Barclays Bank to confirm that on September 24th, 2019, TfL accepted payment from me through my credit card for £80.00. The bank has agreed to send a letter confirming this transaction, but it is not likely to reach me until later this week.. I have contacted the National Debt Line, but I was held on the phone for 20 minutes without talking to a human. I will contact Citizen’s Advice Bureau tomorrow."
Any advice suggestions would be greatly appreciated thank you very much.
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide on this one, it's a very close friend who's in his 70s, even though he makes reference to his girlfriend
His predicament is as follows, in his own words:"On September 16th, 2019, I drove my girlfriend from my home in Bethnal Green to Heathrow, obviously intending to avoid the congestion zone, which until then I had never entered. But a motorcycle accident near the Gray’s Inn Road meant the police set up a diversion; one effect was to steer me briefly into the congestion zone. Within a week I had a notice through the post that I had incurred two penalties, one for breaching the zone, the other for driving a car – a Ford Fiesta manufactured un 1999 - that apparently did not comply with legal emissions. The letter from TfL demanded fines totalling £80.00 On September 24th, using my Barclays credit card, I paid this sum, and put the whole event down to sheer bad luck. On February 24th, 2020, I received a letter from a debt collection agency called Equita demanding that I pay them an outstanding sum of £323.00 outstanding. They were acting for TfL, which claimed I had an outstanding bill for non-payment of the fine incurred on September 16, 2019 amounting to £248.00 – TfL’s account reference number is XXXXX Equita, in a note dated February 18th, 2020, threatens that if I have not paid £323.00 - including their compliance fee of £75.00 - by 17.30 on February 25th (that is, tomorrow) an enforcement agent will visit me and may ‘seize my belongings’ this is called ‘taking control’ They intend to send in a bailiff. I immediately phoned Barclays Bank to confirm that on September 24th, 2019, TfL accepted payment from me through my credit card for £80.00. The bank has agreed to send a letter confirming this transaction, but it is not likely to reach me until later this week.. I have contacted the National Debt Line, but I was held on the phone for 20 minutes without talking to a human. I will contact Citizen’s Advice Bureau tomorrow."
Any advice suggestions would be greatly appreciated thank you very much.
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