Originally Posted by Katie

If they can prove you committed an offence for which they gave you a section 59 then your letter is wasted time, in all honesty. You could say ''so were other people'' but that's about as good as stabbing somebody in the street and saying ''well officer, I've seen other people being stabbed too''...

Somebody took the trouble to produce and position signs so that the public were made aware of where they were not to drive. The idea you had to stop to read a sign is neither here nor there. Most parking signs you have to stop to read, they are usually in tiny font too.

rssteve, you are right, warnings last for 12 months from the date of the previous one.

Section 59

''(5) Subsection (4) does not require a warning to be given by a constable on any occasion on which he would otherwise have the power to seize a motor vehicle under this section if-

(d) the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that the person whose use of that motor vehicle on that occasion would justify the seizure is a person to whom a warning under that subsection has been given (whether or not by that constable or in respect the same vehicle or the same or a similar use) on a previous occasion in the previous twelve months. ''

Doesn't have to be the same vehicle.