An undertaker has won her appeal against Glasgow City Council after she was slapped with a bus lane fine for dropping off a bereaved family at a pub during a rainstorm. East Kilbride-based Hester and Lalli Independent Funeral Care was handed a fixed penalty notice after moving into a bus lane to park outside Grant Arms, where a wake was being held on October 11.
Managing director Dee Lalli told Glasgow Live that the limousine was taking a grieving family from the funeral service to the bar, beside the Hielanman's Umbrella on Argyle Street. The driver crossed into a bus lane to drop them off as close to the entrance as possible, as it was “lashing” down with rain.
The firm was slapped with the fine in the weeks after the incident, and their original appeal to waive the charge was rejected by Glasgow City Council. A spokesperson for the local authority said at the time that the fixed penalty notice was "appropriate" as the driver had "ignored the road restrictions".
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