Driver gets clean air zone warning from city he's never been to
By Richard Purvis and Ollie Pritchard-JonesA man who lives 150 miles from a clean air zone has been sent a warning for entering it, despite never going there.levies a charge on certain polluting vehiclesIan Hughes, from Merseyside, said he is one of a number of motorists to receive an early warning letter, sent in error following a camera problem.
Bristol City Council said anyone who did not enter the city in September and has received a letter should ignore it.to drivers using vehicles that had been triggered by new cameras on the edge of the Clean Air Zone, but it has since admitted some of the cameras may be faulty. The letters warned the drivers that while they were not being fined for that specific trip, they would be if they make the same journey into the Clean Air Zone after the scheme starts.Speaking to BBC Radio Bristol, Mr Hughes said he initially thought his number plate had been cloned and spent several hours on the phone to two separate police forces and the DVLA trying to resolve the issue.
It was only later on that he discovered that the cameras may have an issue reading number plates with a certain combination of letters."Since putting this on the Bristol City Council Facebook page I've been contacted by several other people who have had the same experience as me wasting their time and being upset and worried about the vehicle being cloned," he added.
"You simply cannot expect to send out these inaccurate letters and then not cover the genuine time costs to correct your mistakes."A motorist on Twitter revealed that they lived in Wigan and had never "been south of Nottingham", yet were sent one of the warnings.
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