Man wins parking ticket battle over bee attack

A motorist who received a parking ticket after pulling into a bus lane to swat away a bee has been let off the fine. Paul Winston was issued with the £60 ticket after stopping in a bus stop in north London when the bee started attacking him in his vehicle last July.

He veered into the bus lane and opened his window – shooing the bee out to stop it from stinging him. After months of fighting Camden Council has now agreed to withdraw the ticket after independent adjudicators at the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service (PATAS) ruled in his favour.



He said: "I only stopped there for 57 seconds and I was just trying to get a bee out of my car. I pulled over so I was not a danger on the road – which is exactly what I would have been had I kept driving with the bee in my car."

He added: "I had to go through the whole appeals process which took eight months just to get this ticket cancelled. It's such a waste of the council's money – it should never have happened."