Roads where you are most likely to be fined revealed – with one London street dishing out £5.2m in fines in 10 MONTHS
COUNCILS are seriously cashing in on our driving nightmares, dishing out millions of pounds worth of fines.
But some streets have built up a reputation for slapping motorists with more traffic and parking offences than others - sometimes combined.
On one London street alone, a whopping £5,200,000 worth of traffic penalties were handed out over a 10-month period.
Browning Road in the eastern borough of Newham raked in an average of £17,368 in fines a day, which works out at £723 an hour.
There were 40,616 offences recorded on the busy road between January and October 2021.
The area is now restricted to buses, emergency services, cyclists, black taxis and locals only after residents complained about the sheer volume of vehicles.
The jaw-dropping stats were revealed through a Freedom of Information request by .
After the nightmare Newham road is Cornhill Street in the City of London which leads to Bank Tube station.
Authorities issued a mighty 22,241 traffic offence fines, totalling £1.4m.
This is closely followed by a Romford junction - Tangent Link - in Havering, which has cost drivers £1.3m in 10,129 fines, followed by Charlton Road in Harrow with 9,997 and just under £1.3m.
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Completing the top five is Highbury Hill in posh Islington, north London, which has demanded £1.1m from drivers.
This is spread over 11,303 fines in the same 10-month period.
But astonishingly, even when combined, the single streets in the City of London, Havering, Harrow and Islington don't even make up the number for Newham's Browning Road in Newham.
Elsewhere in the data, it was revealed that Westminster topped the list for parking offences income with a staggering £573,610.
Roads in Newham, Richmond, Kingston and Havering make up the rest of the list, with a combined total of £1.3m.
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Shaf Jade, from Azolvur, which helps fight unfair parking tickets, told Metro: "Councils are generating money by not issuing parking fines, but relying on the fact that people won’t appeal those parking fines.
"The data published on the London council’s website suggests only 0.6 per cent of parking tickets were appealed in 2020 to 2021.
"Councils have automated systems in place where they keep on sending tickets and rely upon the fact that people won’t contest it because they are not aware of the appeal process.
"Also, in today’s hectic life people find the whole process is daunting, so they prefer to pay off rather than to contest."
These figures are for London, but elsewhere in the UK motorists have faced similar financial trouble.
One driver has been fined five times on a single high street dubbed the most fined road in Surrey.
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A total of 1,084 tickets were handed out to drivers parked on Walton High Street, in Elmbridge, in just one year - adding up to more than £100,000.
And Amy, who drives a swanky BMW, told The Sun: "I am forever getting parking tickets around here. It is just a nightmare."