A driver was handed a £100 fine after stopping at a car park for five minutes with a cracked rib cage.
Linden Mair, from Cornwall, claims she parked for less than two minutes and is prepared to go to court over the fine.
The 81-year-old said she'd travelled to the pharmacy to collect her prescription and parked in the adjacent car park to avoid walking further with her injury.
Not thinking "for a second" that she would receive the fine, Linden popped into the medical centre and returned to find the PCN notice.
Despite contesting it and explaining that she is a disabled driver, Linden has been told by the company that she must pay up.
“I’m just so angry and I want to make things difficult for this company and I want people to know," she told Cornwall Live.
"They really ought to have some sort of latitude and they don’t and I think it's time someone held them up for that.
"Imagine I had been a single mother on benefits trying to get medicine for my baby."
Linden, from Wadebridge in Cornwall, would have parked in the pharmacy's car park but it was unusually full on this occasion.
She said she was in the car park for four minutes and nine seconds but believes she was only parked for two minutes or less.
And there was no queue at the pharmacy and the medication was waiting on the counter for her, she added.
On collecting it, the pensioner returned immediately to the vehicle.
"I just thought 'I don't think so' when I got the letter and I didn't ignore the notice but did write back explaining the situation," she said.
"I cracked my rib recently so I couldn’t park as I usually do.
"It’s very unusual for the chemist parking slots to be full but I was just picking up pills that were ready in the chemist for me on the counter and I was gone."
She continued: "In this particular car park there’s no car park attendant, it’s all automatic and photographic.
"There’s nobody there to actually deal with it. I was absolutely livid and if I end up paying, that’s the least of it.
"I want to make a fuss and bring this company out into the public, particularly because the company is not Cornish.
"Most people are so frightened at being caught by authority that they don’t act and they just pay up.
"But I won't. I've done everything I possibly could and if I end up having to pay for it, it will be after explaining my side in court."
The Mirror Online has contacted I Park Services, who run the car park, for comment.
