£350,000 of UK Road & Bridge Toll Penalties Cancelled for European Client

A hiccup with our client’s banking arrangements meant that his standing order to the relevant government agency stopped paying – this meant that he stopped paying bridge tolls. Despite the hiccup not being the fault of our client, he ended-up with several thousand Penalty Notices amounting to over £350,000, with European debt-collectors being instructed to collect the unpaid penalties. Simon Clarke was able to engage his considerable knowledge of road-charging legislation and practice to negotiate a settlement with the relevant government agency so that all of the penalties were cancelled in their entirety, the client only having to pay the original road or bridge toll for each incidence of usage. The overall saving to our client was of the order of  £320,000, an outcome for which our client was no doubt a little relieved.

Smith Bowyer Clarke deals with thousands of Low Emission Zone (LEZ) and Ultra-low Emission Zone (ULEZ) penalties, Road and Bridge Toll Penalty Notices and Civil Penalties on a weekly basis, saving clients amounts which often run to many thousands and hundreds of thousand pounds.