Driver is trapped by cluster of cones after failing to move their Fiat 500 before whole road was tarmacked (except the space under the car)
- Petty workmen tarmacked around the unmoved Fiat 500 in Broadstairs, Kent
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An unwitting driver was left red-faced after workers left a cluster of cones around their Fiat 500 after they failed to move their car before the road was resurfaced.
The baby blue car was left parked on the quiet residential street in Broadstairs, Kent when workmen tarmacked around the car – leaving the space under the hatchback untouched.
Photos show eight yellow cones placed around the car, while the highway maintenance men left notes under the windscreen wiper under the Fiat on Percy Avenue in farcical scenes.
Damarall Werrey-Easterbrook was walking with her son to the library when she spotted it on Saturday. She said: ‘The car stood out like a sore thumb, as the cones were everywhere.
‘Clearly the owner hadn’t moved the car in time for the resurfacing. And the workers had made a point of highlighting that fact.’
Fed-up workman tarmacked around the tiny hatchback – leaving a bare patch of road around the fenced-in super-mini
Notes were also put under the front windscreen wiper of the car in Percy Avenue, Broadstairs
Locals were left bemused by the way in which the motorist had been shamed
She added: ‘I drove past yesterday and the little Fiat 500 had gone. But with all the cones put neatly back in place, like it had done the drive of shame unnoticed.’
It comes after an astonishing moment in which a driver’s parked car was lifted by a tow truck and double yellow lines were painted underneath – before brazen traffic wardens fined the car for ‘illegal parking’.
Bus driver James Dee, 43, said he drove to work as usual, parking his red Vauxhall Zafira on a street in Norwood, south London, last month before starting his shift at a nearby bus depot.
He insisted that there were no lines or restrictions on the road when he parked.
But when he returned to his vehicle that evening on Beadman Street, he was baffled to find it facing the opposite direction with double yellow lines under his back wheel – and a parking ticket attached to it.
James Dee managed to get hold of CCTV which showed his parked car being lifted by a tow truck
He says double yellow lines were painted underneath after his car was lifted off the road
CCTV published in The Sun newspaper appeared to show how the incident unfolded.
‘I couldn’t believe it. Not only did the council move my car to paint the lines, they then had the cheek to slap on a parking ticket, which I’m having to appeal,’ Mr Dee told The Sun.
‘I’m absolutely fuming, I’m not paying a penny.
‘Where I’d left my car there were no lines whatsoever, but when I came back that night at about 8.30pm, my car was facing the opposite way to how I parked it, there were double yellow lines underneath my back wheel, and a ticket in my window.’
Mr Dee says he was slapped with a £55 fine for parking illegally, but appealed against the ticket.
According to reports, Lambeth Council denied his claim, insisting he had parked on a single yellow line.
Then facing an increased £110 fine, Mr Dee managed to get the CCTV footage from a local business.
He has now submitted a formal appeal using the video clip.
MailOnline contacted Lambeth Council for comment.
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