A grandmother will no longer have to pay a bus lane fine after a council has backed down. Almost 30,000 drivers have been caught out by the lane in just one year, including 74-year-old Sandra Dawson.
But the council has quashed Sandra's fine after bosses said it was not in the public interest to reprimand the pensioner. The gran was driving her two grandchildren to the cinema when she accidentally drove onto the bus lane.
Shortly after, Gateshead Council sent the resident a £70 fixed penalty notice, which Sandra says she would not have been in an easy position to pay since retiring. She appealed to the local authority directly but to no avail, ChronicleLive reports.
