A disabled mother has slammed a car park company after being hit with a fine.
Jacquie Wright, 59, said she will "fight this to the end" after being told she had not bought a ticket when she left her red Renault in a car park in Evesham, Worcestershire.
She paid £2 for three hours on November 24 last year and the ticket shows she bought it at 12.01pm - five minutes after CCTV recorded her car at the barrier.
However, she was stunned when she received a letter from Euro Car Parks a week later demanding she pay £100, despite leaving with just under two hours left on the ticket.
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Divorced Jacquie, who has two grown-up children and one grandson, was left stunned when the ticket came through.
She said: "The letter says I entered the car park at 11.56am, which sounds about right as I had an appointment at Specsavers at midday.
"I had paid the £2 fee which gave me until 3.01pm which was ample time. I left after about an hour and headed to Broadway to visit a friend.
"As far as I was concerned I'd paid for three hours but only used an hour of that time.
"The machine printed off the last three digits of my registration number so it proves I bought the ticket for my car.
"I was shocked when I received a fine from this company a week later."
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Jacquie, who suffers from chronic spinal condition spongylitis, has missed the December 30 deadline to pay the fine.
She added: "I am worried about it going to court, but there's no way I'm going to pay it - I will fight this to the end.
"They can threaten me with court action, bailiffs or whatever but they should know they have a fight on their hands.
"I am in the right. I have the proof I bought a ticket in that car park and they have proof I left the car park well within the time limit."
GB News has approached Euro Car Parks for a comment.
According to The Sun, private parking companies fined around six million drivers £100 each between April 2017 and March 2018.
In the 12 months to the end of March 2023, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) information requests show the number had surged to more than 11 million.
According to Churchill Motor Insurance, councils handed out almost 20,000 penalty charge notices per day in 2022, fining drivers between £25 and £180 each.
