Almost three quarters of Irish motorists who were clamped in the past year said they were in some way ‘unfairly clamped’… Well, of course they’re going to say that.
A recent study published by the AA has found that almost 7 per cent of the country’s drivers were clamped at least once in the past twelve months. You could probably guess that Dubliners were the worst offenders with 11 per cent of all 2011 clamping’s taking place in the capital. But would you have guessed that only 3 per cent of clamping’s in 2011 took place in Limerick?
According to the Irish Times, almost 20,000 motorists were surveyed for the AA study, and of the 1,369 who had been clamped just 7.2 per cent felt it had been “completely fair”.
In total 12.3 per cent thought their clamping was “reasonably fair”, 5.3 per cent were neutral, while 26.8 per cent thought it was “somewhat unfair”. However, almost half of respondents thought it was “very unfair” that they were clamped (48.4 per cent).
On the male side of the statistics, 0.7 per cent of men tried crying their way out of a fine, while 0.9 per cent blamed a dire need for the jacks as their excuse for parking on the wrong side of the law.
Surprisingly (or maybe not) 0.5 per cent of men tried flirting their way out of a fine.
What we want to know is, how successful were those 0.5 per cent of blokes?
