Police speed camera van 'can park on yellow lines'
A police van was pictured parked on double yellow lines – but police say the vehicle’s driver was doing nothing wrong.
The Herald’s eagle-eyed photographer spotted the speed camera van parked in Outland Road on Wednesday afternoon.
And Herald reader Graham Webb complained about a similar vehicle being parked in a nearby bus stop.
“No one can park in a bus stop,” he raged. “Only buses and taxis to load and offload, and police cars whilst going about their business with the lights on.
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“The people of Plymouth are struggling with today’s money problems and don’t need people breaking the law to catch them.”
However, a police spokesman said the camera vehicle was exempt from the usual rules which ban other drivers from parking on double yellow lines.
The City of Plymouth Traffic Regulations and Parking Places Order 2004 states that: “Nothing in this order shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes.”
The spokesman said: “In this instance the vehicle was being used for police purposes and therefore the driver may avail him or herself of the exemption.”
Comments
by eyeopener
Monday, January 28 2013, 12:28PM
“Nevertheless the photograph indicates that the van was parked across a road which constitutes obstruction.
Further if you are to claim exemption for parking on yellow lines do you not need to be parked on them? This vehicles was parked across a layby. If yellow lines had been absent, could a private motorist have parked in this fashion?
Any road safety message given by the camera van is destroyed by such blatent poor parking. It begs the question, could the police not have positioned this vehicle elsewhere, or as in Swindon used other speed control methods instead?”