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Hospital parking blunder left Blue Badge holders £70 out of pocket
Sunderland Echo
|November 10, 2025
A parking system blunder at Sunderland's main hospital has left Blue Badge holders baffled and bewildered-and temporarily out of pocket.
Some have been sent fines demanding payment of £70 after being wrongly accused of breaching parking rules.
Several have coughed up the cash believing they had made an error while using bays at Sunderland Royal Hospital and South Tyneside District Hospital.
But hospital bosses now admit Parkingeye, the company which runs the CCTV system which monitors motorists entering and leaving the sites, has erred.
A glitch to a computer data upgrade is being blamed for the details of some Blue Badge holders being erased.
It has led to a number of motorists being sent Parking Charge Notices (PCNs).
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospitals, said all fines had now been cancelled and refunds had been made where required.
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