Woman gets parking fine while unconscious

A parking attendant slapped a ticket on a car windscreen — with the driver sprawled unconscious at the wheel.

Hannah Thomas, 25, feared she was going to crash when she began to feel dizzy.

She pulled up at the roadside before fainting — and came round to find she had been booked for illegal parking in Wimbledon, South London.



Hannah said: “I could have been dead or seriously ill yet they were more interested in dishing out a fine.”

She phoned Merton Council and was told parking attendants were not allowed to speak to drivers unless spoken to and that she would have to pay the fine.

Hannah, of Hounslow, West London, has written to ask for leniency — but paid the £50 fine within the two-week limit to avoid it being doubled to £100 for late payment.