How does one stand in this situation.
Person A drives their car into town. Parks legally for just under 1 hour and returns home.
Person B, who resides in the same household and shares the same car, then drives into town a short while later and parks along the same stretch of road but in a slightly different place, but still within the parking zone.
Person B also parks for less than an hour but returns to car to find PCN on windscreen claiming 'you have returned within 2 hours 24 minutes'.
Person A did not inform person B they had already been into town and parked for the aforementioned duration. Why would they?
Person B in all innocence takes the same car into town and gets a ticket despite being parked perfectly legally to their knowledge.
When these rules are allegedly breached, the traffic officer must presume its the same driver who has parked, left and returned too soon. If this is the case, is their presumption sound in law? i.e. is it right to presume the driver returned too soon rather than the vehicle?
And whats to stop this happening to an employee driving a pool car or delivery van for instance where different drivers park and leave well within time but the vehicle is spotted returning too soon?
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