A pensioner has successfully appealed against a council fine for driving in a bus lane, after discovering a loophole in the law. Bill Ball was slapped with a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) by the local authority following the incident last November.
But the 78-year-old launched an appeal as he claimed one of the three entry signs to the bus gate on the city's Canal Street was not in place at the time. Bill, a retired engineer, took his case to a tribunal last month, which found that signs "did not adequately inform drivers about the bus lane", reports the Mirror.
His £35 fine was scrapped as a result by Nottingham City Council. Mr Ball, 78, from Nettleham, Nottingham in Lincolnshire, said it was a "complete fluke" that he worked out the legal loophole that led him to the successful appeal.
