{"id":770,"date":"2010-08-17T09:21:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2010-08-17T09:21:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T09:21:19","slug":"car-news-highest-parking-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/car-news-highest-parking-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Car News &#8211; Highest parking Fines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Wealthy supercar owners who brazenly flout parking rules owe millions of pounds in unpaid fines to London councils.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign-registered Bugattis, Lamborghinis and Ferraris \u2014 many flown in from the Middle East by private jet for the summer \u2014 have become a common sight in areas  such as Knightsbridge, where they are often seen parked illegally on  yellow lines, in bus lanes and residents&#8217; bays.<\/p>\n<p>But about 80 per cent of tickets go unpaid and officials admit they are powerless to pursue the owners in their home countries.<\/p>\n<p>Now Westminster council has named and shamed some of the most prolific offenders in the hope of recouping nearly \u00a34 million in unpaid fines.<\/p>\n<p>Near the top of the authority&#8217;s most wanted list is the Arab owner of a \u00a3300,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom bearing the number plate 3HVB, who has racked up 18 tickets and owes  \u00a32,000. Another is the driver of a \u00a3200,000 Lamborghini Murcielago,  registered in Dubai with the number plate E477, who had almost \u00a32,000 for 19 unpaid tickets  written off but now owes a further \u00a3500 for five more tickets.<\/p>\n<p>In  the last three years offenders have failed to settle a total of 36,332  penalty notices issued in Westminster, leaving the council \u00a33,776,490  out of pocket.<\/p>\n<p><!-- ARTICLE INLINE AD -->One of those is the owner of a Bugatti Veyron L&#8217;Edition Centenaire \u2013 registration 444 \u2013 who would have spent about  \u00a31.2 million to buy the 250mph car but failed to pay \u00a3120 after he  parked on a yellow line outside Selfridges.<\/p>\n<p>Another  Veyron, painted red and black and with the distinctive registration  111111, was ticketed this month in Bryanston Street, near Marble Arch,  but the council has not traced its driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wealthy supercar owners who brazenly flout parking rules owe millions of pounds in unpaid fines to London councils. Foreign-registered Bugattis, Lamborghinis and Ferraris \u2014 many flown in from the Middle East by private jet for the summer \u2014 have become<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/car-news-highest-parking-fines\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}