A young mum shopping with her two small babies says she was trapped for an hour and a half trying to exit a Tesco car park in intense heat on match day and was then slapped with a £70 car parking fine.
Ellie Brierley, 21, who lives in Stretford was stuck trying to leave the car park in Tesco, Stretford on Sunday, August 7, due to Manchester United versus Brighton football match traffic from nearby Old Trafford. The mum of two boys aged 20 months and nine months, who were in the car with her at the time said the air conditioning wasn't working and temperatures inside her car reached 32 degrees.
After finally exiting the car park and making it home, Ellie says she received a car parking fine from Horizon Parking a few days later of £70, which is reduced to £30 if she paid it in 14 days. Ellie, who says she was shopping for just over an hour in Tesco says: "I had to unpack my shopping in the car and give my boys bits of food and some yoghurt to cool them down. I was sat in standstill traffic on the car park for one hour and twenty five minutes.
