Drivers slapped with 5,000 motoring fines as council uses CCTV car to target bad parking

Drivers slapped with 5,000 motoring fines as council uses CCTV car to target bad parking

More than 5,000 drivers have been caught breaking road rules and parking illegally within months of a major council launching a car equipped with CCTV cameras.Leicester City Council has confirmed that 5,229 fixed penalty notices have been issued by the camera enforcement vehicle between April 1 and July 31.The vehicle is equipped with an automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera in a bid to slash the rate of dangerous parking incidents.Sp…