Take your pick - £130 PCN or a head on smash with a vehicle transporter?

 

Mr Mustard doesn't know the size of the vehicle transporter in this case but it will certainly have been a lot larger than the car, a white Audi A1 (you can look up certain vehicle details on government websites about road fund and MOT status for most vehicles). Realistically though, the best idea is to get out of the way of any vehicle which is likely to hit you, especially head on.

Clearly the anonymous staff who decide whether or not to cancel your PCN don't factor danger to the person into their decision making even though avoiding an accident is an obvious defence to a bus lane PCN. They think you should risk being smashed to pieces so that you don't put a single mm of car into the bus lane.

Note that there was only a minimal incursion so this is clearly not the case of a person hooning up the bus lane past a row of stationary cars. Also, almost all of  Barnet's bus lanes take you south so probably don't even need a restriction which covers 6-7pm (this PCN was for being in the bus lane at 6:08 pm on 29 October.)

It was also dark (sunset at 4:37 pm on the day in question) and thus making out clearly what was happening was harder for the driver of the Audi who was clearly a safe and sensible driver as were two more, who probably also got ticketed.

Yours frugally

Mr Mustard