Greetings,

Bit of a surprise this one...

Last year December we visited my father (in Wandsworth, London) and to park in the road outside his place you have to fill in a parking card for the day - fill in the reg and scratch off the day, month and year. The car has Swiss plates.

Unfortunately I trusted my stupid (now former) girlfriend to do this, and she neglected to fill in the year (!) on the permit. Next day we found a parking ticket because of this.

Now naturally I assumed - Swiss plates - ain't gonna be pursued for this - and binned it...

Wrong.

I now have a demand from Wandsworth council via Euro Parking Colllection (www.epcplc.com) for the fine in CHFs. Must be the first time they've pursued a payment from Switzerland because it's taken 9 months to track me down and whilst the fine is in CHF, on their website you can only pay in £, €, $ and the various Nordic currencies - but no CHF :-)

Anyway the moral of this story is: beware - even UK parking tickets can't always be avoided now :-(

Regards.

PitBull.

There's another thread about fines from other countries. An EU system plus, presumably Switzerland, is now in place to collect fines throughout the EU.

Geez, what were you thinking letting a female handle something as difficult as scratching off a parking permit.

Yeah I think its starting to work with speeding fines aswell now. I got caught in France in March and didn't recieve the ticket untill around June time... No experience with fines from Switzerland though..

You should write to them and appeal because it sounds like you paid for the ticket. Probally just a traffic warden having a bad day...