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Is this correct, the OP has received a SORN fine, not a parking ticket.

David. wrote: Is this correct, the OP has received a SORN fine, not a parking ticket.

And thats the point


Should it be a sorn fine or a parking ticket?


He says it was declared sorn and classed as on the highway if its on a verge


But if you park there you get a fine as its not a parking space or part of the highway its the verge


I just think its wrong he has being fined when its off the road and not being used when there is load of untaxed and uninsured drivers out there actually driving about on the road


Seems like easy money for them

David. wrote: Found this on MSE, Sorn Fine with incorrect details — MoneySavingExpert Forum

Thanks David,but it doesn't really answer my question.


Think I'll swallow and pay the fine tomorrow,life's to short for these things.Lesson learned.

sakm wrote:
And thats the point


Should it be a sorn fine or a parking ticket?


He says it was declared sorn and classed as on the highway if its on a verge


But if you park there you get a fine as its not a parking space or part of the highway its the verge


I just think its wrong he has being fined when its off the road and not being used when there is load of untaxed and uninsured drivers out there actually driving about on the road


Seems like easy money for them

I hadn't realised that the verge(its more a huge grass area outside our houses)was classed as the highway and thought i was doing the right thing by parking it off the tarmac,ie,the road.I have sinced learned there are multiple things they will fine a fully legal vehicle for,if its parked on the verge.The favourite one seems to be obstruction,and from there the list goes on.Damned if you do,damned if you don't. As i posted above,I'll swallow and pay.

Payed the £170 earlier and to be honest i feel I've been mugged,robbing bastards

sakm wrote:
I know that


But they are saying it was on the highway! yet if you park a taxed MOTed and insured car there you would get fined for it being on the verge


So is it the highway or is it the verge or is it just when it suits

I wonder if the highway extends to the grass verge when "1. A highway maintainable at the public expense" ie grass cutting.



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The highway goes from boundary to boundary. So a verge is part of it. No doubt a lot do not realise that and fall foul. Put it in your driveway or obviously on private land otherwise….

burridge01 wrote: Payed the £170 earlier and to be honest i feel I've been mugged,robbing bastards

Yes, I think I'd be pretty pissed too  >:(  I bought my missus a car a few years back to learn to drive in. She failed her test twice and gave it up in her temper lol. Anyway, the car was just sat over the road on what I thought was the church car park and never used so I sorned it. It'd had been there about two years Mot'd and insured but untaxed without bother when all of a sudden a local police woman came asking questions to who'm the car belonged to? I owned up and a little disgruntled agreed to move it once I'd freed the seized brakes off. A month went by without further ado and my works van got broke into on the same car park  >:(  anyway, the same copper came round the following day to take the details of the break in so I thought? oh no! she'd come round to tell me to move the car again!!! well, she got a right bollocking for about 20 mins lol then the vicar came home and enquired what was going on? so he got a bollocking as well because I'd guessed it was one of his parishioners who'd grassed me over having no road tax. Hey ho, life goes on 

You gave the Vicar a bollocking? That's your chances of getting through the pearly gates fecked. He'll have contacts up there.