You cannot in your heart truly believe she should be let off the law maybe wrong but its there and we know it .Stopping at a bus stop gets you fined I do not see the problem.

Truly sanctimoneous answers so far:

I was there, as I said no-one inconvenienced, what if we had stopped in the middle of the road & stopped traffic what would the recourse have been then, probably none, is there any restriction for drop off in the middle of a carriageway ? bearing in mind I am not talking about the M25.

This is common sense I am talking about here or have things got that bad that even an appeal wouldn't stand for it: what if there was a medical emergency how would I stand with that.

Edited by Jagman on 28/07/2010 at 18:10

It's a tough one. We've all done it: it's easy to become sanctimonious but in the past we always got away with it; nowadays mostly we don't. To stand a cat in hell's chance of sympathy in a court case, an utterly original and plausible excuse is needed. "It was only for a few seconds, gov" will not wash; end of. IIRC Stirling Moss once parked in an ambulance bay and argued (successfully) against a fine as was using his car as an ambulance, i.e. dropping his wife off at the hospital owing to a genuine medical emergency.

I think the only way round this would be a Sweeney-style "drop off", i.e. jump (rather, be shoved) out with the car still moving and not technically stopped or parked. Anyone fancy chancing a few cracked ribs to make a test case? Has to be a sliding door, so Kangoo, Berlingo, maybe an ex-post office Sherpa van...

I have seen vehicles before,in That London, where people were able to jump on and off a low platform/doorway at the nearside rear when the vehicle was moving slowly in traffic.

Buses, I think they were called. They also had designated areas to stop in, for those too timid to jump.