Got parking fines for its snowmobile – 100 mil south – Aftonbladet

No, snowmobile from Umeå not Parked in Lysekil on the west coast.

Despite this, the owner, and several motorists, received parking tickets from there.

A sensitive scanning machine is the cause.

– There’s nothing we can get away, says Karin Zetterlund Transport Agency.

Last time have Lysekil police become nedringd of upset and troubled car owners. Many have namely been given a reminder by the Transport Agency of unpaid regularizing the illegal parking in the municipality – although they are not parked in the Bohuslän coastal community, writes Lysekil Post.

– I have never been through this before. It is strange, says Mikael Roos, inspector at the police in Lysekil, told the newspaper.

So far, these are about 5-6 cases in Lysekil. A Umeåbo got a parking fine for his snowmobile, which the owner not visited Bohuslän.

– Would he have parked his snowmobile in Lysekil? It’s really strange, says Mikael Roos.

The machine reads the wrong

A shutdown snowmobile in Boden was fined in Malmö in May. Another person was at conference 25 mil from when the car was fined in Lysekil.

The cumbersome in the wrong control fees take much time for the police. According to the Transport Agency is the mysterious p fine on the authority scanning machine. The machine is sensitive and can easily be mistaken handwritten letters when parking the forms are scanned.

– The fault has always existed and is not unique to Lysekil. It may be coincidence that makes it have appeared in Lysekil right now. Or you have turned to the police instead of to the Transportation Board, says Karin Zetterlund, administrator at the Swedish Transport Agency to Lysekil Post.

She regrets that it can not be improved scanning machines.

– It is not supposed to citizens exposed. But there is nothing that we can get away. It will happen occasionally, she says.

Digital solution

One solution is simply to parking attendants use digital handhelds. As long as the correct registration number is entered numbers can not be misinterpreted.

According to Johan Thylén the Civil Administration in Lysekil will commune possibly switching to the digital system.

– We need to figure out how big the problem is to see if it is economically viable to switching systems, he says to Lysekil Post.