Free Traffic Legal Advice

Hello,

On Wednesday 12 November I was about to drive through an area of Addiscombe Road which is restricted to buses and trams only between 4 and 7 pm. The time was 4:10 pm and as soon as I got to the restricted area, I realised I couldn't go through at the time and did a U-turn. Unfortunately a camera snapped me and I got a PCN (link below)

https://imgpile.com/p/WxSEEl2#CijndYO

The video accompanying the PCN is only 17 seconds long and doesn't show me doing the U-turn, but you can see me braking (brake lights are visible) and coming to a stop to do the U-turn.

I only slightly entered the restricted area (could I argue de minimis perhaps?) and the whole reason for this restriction is to stop cars entering the main part of Addiscombe road from the tramway - something I didn't do. I really think the council should have provided the whole video of the U-turn - they probably have it.

In addition I went back to the area and took several photos. There are two signs warning of the restricted area before you get to it. However, the first and clearest sign would not have been visible to me, because it's behind the building I started my journey from.

Here is the first sign:

https://imgpile.com/p/WxSEEl2#cm9vGFI

Here is where I started my journey:

https://imgpile.com/p/WxSEEl2#zpyuMJ0

Then there is a second sign, but it's raised up and not as clear as the first:

https://imgpile.com/p/WxSEEl2#FaGHYwp

Finally this is the sign at the beginning of the restricted area:

https://imgpile.com/p/WxSEEl2#PBedoiK

I would be grateful for any advice about this - I hope I can appeal based mainly on the fact that I U-turned when I could and that one sign wasn't visible to me.

However, also worried about the fact that Croydon Council don't even read appeals and automatically reject them.

Hello Hippocrates.

Here's the reverse of the PCN

https://imgpile.com/p/gZVhc3m#rxhaXtq

and here's what appears on their website

https://imgpile.com/p/gZVhc3m#tVjxAL9

@Amr76 My advice is and has been clear. If you want to part with £80 without sending in a representation as suggested, then you will join The Mugged Club.

Good luck to you. I am out of this thread and have much bigger fish to fry at present.

Just copy and paste the link in my first link. Check the wording with yours and send it. Croydon won't understand it either -one of their officers was sideways moved from RBK and she did not even understand Bus Lane law dates. I publicly called for her resignation as per one/two of Tommy Poirot's videos.

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