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If you are clamped:
• keep calm, don't lose your temper or attempt to remove
a wheel clamp unless you have exceptionally good reasons -
you could be sued for criminal damage
• contact the telephone number shown
and ask for release
• check whether warning signs and boundaries
are clear enough. You could also take a photograph to use
as evidence later on
• ask the wheel-clamper who they work
for, whether the landowner's authority can be produced, and
if they have a licence from the SIA
• if you don't think a wheel-clamper
is licensed, don't pay the release fee. If they refuse to
release your vehicle without a fee, call the police. An unlicensed
wheel-clamper is committing a criminal offence
• report unlicensed wheel-clampers to
the SIA
• if the wheel-clamper uses threatening
or intimidating behaviour, you should report this to the police
• if the wheel-clamper is licensed, you will have to
pay the release fee, but insist on a receipt. Try to get the
address and phone number at which the wheel-clamper can be
contacted
• if you think you should not have been
clamped, for example because the warning notices were inadequate,
or the release fee was too high, the only way to get your
money back may be through the courts. A solicitor will be
able to advise you on what chance you have of winning your
case.
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