A motorist was slapped with $640 worth of fines for parking on the nature strip because there weren’t any spaces left on the road.
The NSW driver was fined twice for the offence and took to social media to explain that she might contest the penalty in court.
‘I have parked on the grass because there are no car spots left on the road and no spots in the driveway and my car gets bogged on the front lawn inside the brick fence,’ she wrote.
‘Would you take this to court? Two fines totalling $640 for parking on the front lawn?’
The woman explained she didn’t know it was illegal to park on the grass.
She defended the move by saying residents shouldn’t have to mow their own lawns if the area is managed by the council.
Parking on a nature strip or a footpath in NSW is an offence under the Road Rules Act and it carries a fine of $320.
Motorists in Queensland face a whopping $3,096 fine over the illegal act while drivers in the ACT will cop a $3,200 penalty.
The driver was slugged with the penalty for parking the vehicle on the nature strip (pictured)
Figures by council reporting app Snap Send Solve showed there has been a 25 per cent increase in the number of drivers parking on nature strips or footpaths.
Snap Send Solve CEO Danny Gorog said parking on nature strips is a major issue that was increasingly frustrating residents.
‘Victoria, NSW and Queensland are among the states with the highest number of concerns around illegal parking across our walkways,’ he told Yahoo.
The latest incident comes after a man in Canberra was fined $132 for parking his ute on his driveway.
The fine was issued to the driver because part of the vehicle was blocking the footpath.
The driver didn’t realise that this part of his driveway is considered public property and it does not belong to him, making his park illegal.
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