Got a PCN - please help

[Stu]

Got a PCN for "failing to drive in the direction shown by the arrow on a blue sign"
£100 fine (£50 in 14 days)
1) Can they do this? - I know there are signs on all buses saying £100 for bus lane, But I've never heard of this before.
2) This is soo unfair - If I had been stopped by a policeman I would be able to understand the charge and be able to give an explanation (if there was one). But receiving a notice 10 days after the event I have no idea if it was me driving, and if it was I could have been obeying the instruction of a police officer (OK unlikely that the camera operator wouldn't have seen this) or some other perfectly valid excuse.

Pleease tell me how I can get out of this.

Or find me the person responsible at Camden :smt072 :smt071 :smt097 :smt070 :smt068 :smt067 :smt074 :smt021 :smt075 :smt065 :smt013 :smt066 :smt021

TIA

[zedleppelin1981]

Eh?? :confused: Sounds like it was issued by a jobsworth

Blue sign with white arrow indicates a one-way street. And I'm sure you would have noticed if you were going the wrong way :D !!

I'm sure the penalty for driving the wrong way on a one-way street is more than £100?

[Ch00]

Count yourself lucky you was not stopped by a policeman as failing to comply with a mandatory direction sign would have earned you a £60 fine and then 3 points on your licence as it is endorsable. So paying an extra £40 and having no points seems like a better deal.

Ch00

[Stu]

Don't think it was a s serious as wrong way on one way street. I'll have to revist the scene of the alledged crime but the only thing springing to mind would be a turning left on a no left turn (but that's not a blue sign :confused:)

[Ch00]

It might have been a keep left or right sign like the ones you get on crossing islands in the middle of the road.

Ch00

[Stu]

Yup that's probably it

[Ch00]

If its a council type ticket then its in the same class as a parking ticket and therefore doesn't go on your driving record, so its like it never happened!!

Ch00

[Stu]

But you have to pay it? or tell them :smt097

[T0mm0]

Got done doing exactly the same manoeuvre along The Highway towards Tower Bridge. Traffic at a stand still and instead of patiently waiting for a gap and riding around an island with the traffic. I decided to ignore the "Keep Left" arrow and ride round the island on the opposite side of the road, basically that was the offence.

The :plod: stopped me and issued a £40 fine but no points. Have no complaints as I ignored the traffic sign.

[Davies]

Did they give you any photographic evidence? I think that you can request it if they didn't.....of course if they haven't got any they it would be much easier to contest :D

[rigor]

http://www.parking-appeals.gov.uk/IveReceived/knowPCN.asp

Have a look here. There's a bit at the top saying it should be handed to you or placed on your vehicle, but not sure that's enough to appeal on. Not sure with parking notices if you have to say who was driving. It's a vehicle thing, not a driver thing, if that makes sense.

[TEC]

Looks like the trial (http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/doc.asp?doc=14891&cat=1873) is no longer a trial and has now expanded :sad:

[Spiderman]

HEy Stu, any chance you can bring the "ticket" or whatever to soho with you tonight if you're coming?
I'd be interested in seeing who issued it and why. Maybe i can help. But thats a maybe till i see it.