FlashPark,
a UK-based parking enforcement company has carried out a survey that
shows motorists issued with parking charge notices, but given the
chance to apologise, are much less likely to reoffend.
London,
UK (October 18, 2013) -- FlashPark,
a UK-based parking enforcement company has carried out a survey that
shows motorists issued with parking charge notices, but given the
chance to apologise, are much less likely to reoffend.
A
sample of 375 motorists who were issued parking charge notices by
parking enforcement company FlashPark.co.uk
had been asked for an undertaking not to reoffend at the same
location in return for having the charge notice quashed.
The
survey covered a six-month period up to 31st July 2013 and all of the
motorists in the sample had parked illegally on private land and had
subsequently appealed against their notices on various grounds.
Only
3 per cent of the sample reoffended in the two months following the
apology, significantly lower than the reoffending level for those
illegal parkers who were not given the chance to say sorry.
According
to Costas Constantino of FlashPark, "this shows that the
majority of the motoring public are basically honest citizens and are
good for their word.
"We
are looking at the possibility of sending out warnings instead of
parking charge notices for first offences. Our business model still
works as our services are paid for by the landowner," he said.
Mr
Constantino is the inventor of the world's first 'talking parking
ticket', a 30-second friendly audio warning that can be recorded by
the issuer at the scene of the parking misdemeanour.
FlashPark
is the first parking control company in the UK that issues warnings
without charge notices - at a time when parking charges are at a
record high cost.
Media
Contact:
Costas
Constantino
Vehicle
Control Solutions Ltd
West
Hill House
6
Swains Lane, Highgate
London
N6 6QS
United
Kingdom
0800
096 5757
No comments:
Post a Comment