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A driver has been sent a bill for £18,500 after she spent a year ignoring parking fines stuck to her windscreen.



Carly Mackie has been parking outside her garage in Dundee for more than a year and has ignored the fixed penalty notices she has received on an almost daily basis, wrongly believing she was entitled to park there. But the 26-year-old has now been sent a formal letter from a private parking firm demanding she pay £18,500 to cover the cost of the dozens of parking tickets. The firm said Miss Mackie has not challenged a single fine issued to her over more than a year and was not entitled to leave her car there because motorists are not allowed to park in covered passage ways, and also need a permit to leave their cars in the area.

Miss Mackie, who said she came to regard the daily tickets as an annoyance, has been parking her Mini on the cobbles outside her driveway for more than a year. She said: 'We have a right to park in front of our own property. I've considered moving out. It just makes my life so hellish.'I always make a point of parking in front of my own garage, where nobody else could park, and never parking on the double yellow lines on the road.' But Vehicle Control Services Limited, which sent her the letter demanding money for the fine, said she is wrong and is not entitled to park in front of her garage. A spokesman said: 'The site in question is covered by a contract that restricts use of the rear car park to permit holders only and prohibits motorists from parking in the covered vehicle access passage ways.

We're not allowed to park blocking driveways, even if it is your own driveway.