Dozens of Costa Coffee customers found themselves mistakenly fined £90 for parking at a Lidl supermarket

Yorkshire Post

Dozens of motorists visiting a Costa Coffee shop have have found themselves mistakenly fined £90 for parking at a Lidl supermarket next door.  CCTV cameras covering the Lidl car park in Hull, East Yorks, monitor vehicles to ensure they don't over stay a 90 minute free parking limit.  However they have also recorded vehicles exiting which have actually been parked in the neighbouring Costa Coffee store where customers can enjoy three hours free parking.  Sharron Paragreen, a retired teaching assistant, visited the coffee chain last month and was parked for just an hour and 53 minutes, well below the three-hour limit which was in place at the Costa car park.  But she was hit with a whopping £90 fine because the Lidl's car park had a maximum stay of 90 minutes.

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00:00My wife entered the car park through this entrance here and was picked up by the camera

00:09just up to the right hand side. She came into the Costa Coffee car park, here's the car

00:17park and signage that she checked to see how long she was entitled to is right here, which

00:34clearly indicates three hours, three hours maximum stay. If my wife had gone into the

00:42little car park then she would have gone this way and eventually when she parked up

00:55she would have seen the sign here that says 90 minutes but that camera there picks up

01:03cars coming in and going out of the car park and that's what happened with my wife. She

01:09was picked up entering and picked up exiting but she'd actually gone into the Costa car park. She

01:17can't prove that she wasn't in the little car park but she can prove she was in Costa because

01:23she had the receipt for the coffee that she purchased.

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