Yes. No signs or lines - no fines As long a you don't park like a twat, but even then you're unlikely to be dealt with (especially in my city!)...
Which they will probably refuse to release “dOo tO tHe dAYtUh pRevEnTiOn axE” or “yUmAN rItEs”, and they’ll bat her back to the Police. The Police will have a record of who ordered the removal and why.
I've never been towed, but I would expect the process to be something along the lines of: Return to find car missing, contact police. Police explain car has been towed and why, along with details of how to retrieve car. Presumably this would include some reference for the towing company. Turn up at towing company with said reference, and they hand over keys and paperwork on payment of release fee.
There will be some sort of docket but that will be secondhand info and they almost certainly will not disclose any of their communications with the Police. The contractors are just the monkeys, but she needs to get the info from the organ grinder.
The police would not authorise release if someone else had the vehicle towed. I would suspect that one of the residents parked a vehicle in such a way that an obstruction was caused. Cop attends and needs to take action to relieve the obstruction. PNC check shows daughter is none resident and so tows her car. The towing firms are contracted to the Police they get their money in the release fee or if no one recovers the car they get to keep it. The Police are going to have to pay the release fee they will not be happy about it. More so because the photo proves that the resident has had them over. If I was you I would stoke the fire by making a complaint. Police Professional Standards wouldn't ignore it especially as it has cost the Police at least £150 The fallout would make the residents think twice before pulling any more stunts like that
I was wondering the same thing, but looking at the photo I can’t see how another car could cause that state of affairs. Also, surely they would contact the resident first, although it’s possible they ignored the door knock and phone call. This certainly is turning out to be a “three pipe problem”, my dear Watson.
So without having to read between the opinion and anti establishment grind.... 1 Who authorised the tow away? 2 Why was it towed away?
the dust is settling on this one now Andy, so unless you personally want to help Shakey D. get to the bottom of it as part of an official complaint then I would let it go - 99% of what you need is in this thread. I can't add what i would do if this had happened to my daughter.
So someone local deemed it an obstruction, the cops attended and agreed and it was recovered. Im amazed, as twenty years ago you couldn't just have a vehicle recovered, it would need to be authorised by a control room. an incident created so all involved are listed on the log. I wonder how many others have been towed or reported for obstruction at that location?
some of the story doesn't make sense and it appears not just to me? because of the costs involved in towing god knows how many vehicles a day there would normally be just short of an inquest before the recovery was authorised. ie the cops couldn't or wouldn't just recover it on the say of a pissed off local, even if the cop attending was naive or aggressive, and even if they are that pissed off with the parking of cars becoming a daily occurrence. There is still a protocol for recovery. Of course the Op is pissed because his daughters car got towed, and I think she knew it was a little contentious by taking the photo after parking. I don't get who wrote on the pavement too, I don't believe the recovery or cops would do that. perhaps a local councillor or politician lives there.
take your point with last sentence, and thought similar, even a retired policeman of rank maybe - no offence meant. as i posted earlier, unless you're a mind reader, there are many reasons for taking a picture, and if I was worried about getting to work on time I would certainly take the precaution of taking a picture after being shouted at, and obviously contentious after that but with no reasonable or obvious grounds to justify this.
Set up a webcam in the car to see which NIMBY prick is meddling? If she is legally OK to park there and is NOT causing an obstruction there can be no grounds for towing. In the photo the road looks pretty clear of parked cars so I don’t know why residents are getting a bee in their bonnet. I live around the corner from a school and we have teachers parked up and down the road, plus the twice daily carnage at drop/pick up time. I’ve seen far far worse. Daily.
