A taxi driver says he was slapped with a £100 penalty for staying too long in a garage car park because a delivery truck blocked him in. Leonard Egbedi, 43, said he was trapped in the garage forecourt after getting a £4 car wash when the HGV delivering to the shop stopped him leaving.
The private hire driver from Manchester was taking a client 220 miles to Lewisham, south east London, when he stopped to wash his car at the Shell garage on May 13. After his car was washed he tried to leave, but the exit was blocked by a delivery lorry, he said.
Leonard said he and other vehicles were all lined up waiting for the truck to move so they could exit. By the time Leonard had washed his car and waited for the lorry to move, he had “parked longer than the maximum period allowed” and so received a charge notice for £104 in the post.
