Drivers caught using dead relatives’ disabled badges to avoid parking charges

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Checks reveal the badge holder had passed away in 2016.

Drivers of two vehicles in Nottingham city centre were caught displaying blue disabled badges belonging to people who died last year.

The Nottingham City Council Parking Enforcement Team said the use of the cancelled disabled badges to avoid parking charges was ‘unacceptable’.

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This cancelled blue badge belonged to someone who died in 2016.

Both cases involved vehicles displaying disabled badges which had been cancelled following the deaths of the badge holder’s in 2016.

Nottingham City Community Protection Compliance Fraud Officer Marcus Hall tweeted about the incident.

He said: “Two vehicles in Nottingham reported over the weekend displaying blue badges belonging to someone who has died.

“What is wrong with some people?”

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Marcus Hall says that further enforcement is to follow.

The first car was found parked in the disabled parking bays located on Wollaton Street, adjacent to the Theatre Royal Concert Hall.

The second vehicle was found on Victoria Street and was reported by the Nottingham Civil Enforcement Response Team.

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This car was found parked on Victoria Street and was using a cancelled disabled badge.

In October 2015 the city council caught nine drivers using badges that belonged to deceased relatives.