ASDA moves on with hefty fines for illegal parking good or not.?

Question

It will now cost £60 or £70 after 28 days for illegally parking in a disabled bay in ther car parks.

Answer 1

Of course it's good! Any oaf parking in a disabled bay through sheer laziness deserves more than a fine.

Answer 2

Good for ASDA there is nothing worse than guiding someone who is nearly blind,a person who suffers permanent dizzines and sickness who cannot walk more than a few feet without resting let alone doing it on their own, in between  a car park full of closely packed cars. A reserved space near the store entrance for a disabled person is not too much to ask for, is it?

Answer 3

Well they do usually have enough spaces that you really shouldn't have to park in the disabled bay anyway, however I feel that a private firm punishing it's own customers with such a hefty fine is too excessive... Also I would be interested in what fashion these fines are upheld.

A final point of note is, Where are the proceeds of these fines going? I certainly think that since their supposed aim is in "helping" disabled folk... then the proceeds should go to a worthy disabled charity and not to the already excessively wealthy monster that is ASDA WAL-MART.

Further -

As already mentioned above, these fines are not criminal but civil matters of contract law. If you don't pay them then they would have to take you through the small claims court. Even if they did find out who the registered keeper is from the DVLA,  the would struggle to prove who the actual driver was and since they can only issue a penalty to that driver, it would be fairly easy to get off with. Also there are other ways to contest the fines through "fairness" in contract law etc.

Answer 4

Darn, does that mean I can't keep scratching the doors of the idiots who park where they shouldn't...

Answer 5

When you see a family of five, all overweight and full of the finer things of life, pull up in their Toyota Lancruiser, 08 plate, and drive straight into the disabled bay and then all launch off into the store at lightning speed ..... you can see why Asda do it. People are selfish, greedy and downright inept when it comes to recognising exactly who should be parking there.  Disabled people need that break ..... not the contemptuous chavs of this land.  Some people take, take and take ..... and never ever give back ..... that's why Asda do it. What is the point in marking special bays for yobs to invade them?   And you approach them to tell them this and you get two fingers up or worse.  Bravo to Asda for being forthright in this matter.

Answer 6

What puzzles me is the number of 4x4`s and camper vans that carry disabled badges.  How on earth do disabled people climb up into these vehicles?  And how do they expect disabled people in small cars to manoeuvre past them?

Answer 7

It is their land. Technically, it can't be illegal, it is private land and not subject to the laws which apply to a public road.

Trespass isn't "illegal" in the criminal sense in England, it is a civil matter.

Answer 8

I was told that this doesnt apply in my local Asda Store!

Answer 9

So dont park in the disabled bays. Lets face it Asda's car parks are always huge and I've never yet seen one so full that you cant park. Disabled spaces are for the disables, I agree with asda

Answer 10

uuurrmm.. could Asda not provide more parent.child parking..?

surely this would end the problem...

Answer 11

wish they would enforce it in the asda where i live, its a nightmare full of cars not showing badges, they got the signs but no-one enforcing them!!

Answer 12

Not sure how enforcable it is but I agree totally.... just wish they would do they same for parents and kids parking spaces

get so angry seeing lazy gits parking in them when people like me have young children in the car

Answer 13

I work in Asda so I've got another reason for customers to winge at me (an apathetical yay) when I go back to work in the summer hols.