Shrewsbury Town fans fuming at match parking fines

More than 50 Shrewsbury Town fans were ticketed by council parking wardens as they watched their club's promotion crunch clash with Crawley, according to angry supporters.

Drivers who parked on a grass verge outside the closed Meole Brace Park and Ride came out of the match to find they had landed £75 parking fines.

Supporters today branded Shropshire Council as pedantic and petty, but the council said anybody could appeal against their ticket.

The tickets were left on windscreens stating cars were 'parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours', but motorists claim common sense should have been applied.

One supporter, who did not wish to be named, said he was stunned to find every car had received a £75 fine.

He said: "Shropshire Council obviously set out to target Shrewsbury Town fans.

"On a Saturday, no-one parks there but for night matches, when the Park and Ride is closed, it is effectively a lane in the country and people park there without a problem.

"There are double yellow lines, but at night it's a dark dead end. This is nothing about road safety it's just a money-making scheme.

"I doubt whether any residents raised the alarm as there are none anywhere near that position on the retail park, so the parking wardens obviously waited for kick-off and then got somebody down to the site."

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