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It is free to cross the Humber Bridge if you are blue badge disabled. My mother is, and crossed in error at 6am one sunday morning in June. She immediately crossed back to go to her volunteer job.
She saw no attendant and so just crossed the bridge, turned back, and crossed again.
No one asked for the £1.50 payment or asked to see her blue badge.
She then received a £32 fine, saying she should have paid online, but she has no internet access and cannot use a computer....she is 80!
I contacted the e-mail they gave, and politely asked for leniency, due to blue badges being exempt anyway, that she is old, has no internet, and was volunteering for a charity. She had never been there before and doesn't live anywhere near the bridge, so it was a new area to her, and very confusing for her. To her, if you cross a bridge and dont get asked for money, then she knew nothing about going to website AFTER and paying, which she couldnt do anyway.
They just sent it to the LAW dept and demanded £55, and say it will keep going up.
She is NOT paying this fine. The men that MUGGED her never had to pay THEIR fine.
She lives in a one bed flat on a tiny pension driving an 18 year old car, and she isnt paying.
I have sent them copies of her blue badge.
Can anyone help? Many thanks.
It is free to cross the Humber Bridge if you are blue badge disabled. My mother is, and crossed in error at 6am one sunday morning in June. She immediately crossed back to go to her volunteer job.
She saw no attendant and so just crossed the bridge, turned back, and crossed again.
No one asked for the £1.50 payment or asked to see her blue badge.
She then received a £32 fine, saying she should have paid online, but she has no internet access and cannot use a computer....she is 80!
I contacted the e-mail they gave, and politely asked for leniency, due to blue badges being exempt anyway, that she is old, has no internet, and was volunteering for a charity. She had never been there before and doesn't live anywhere near the bridge, so it was a new area to her, and very confusing for her. To her, if you cross a bridge and dont get asked for money, then she knew nothing about going to website AFTER and paying, which she couldnt do anyway.
They just sent it to the LAW dept and demanded £55, and say it will keep going up.
She is NOT paying this fine. The men that MUGGED her never had to pay THEIR fine.
She lives in a one bed flat on a tiny pension driving an 18 year old car, and she isnt paying.
I have sent them copies of her blue badge.
Can anyone help? Many thanks.
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