Yahoo! News - Museum exhibit slapped with congestion fineMuseum exhibit slapped with congestion fine
Wed Feb 26, 9:25 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A 105-year-old car which has been off the road since 1947 has been slapped with a penalty notice for allegedly evading London's recently introduced congestion charge scheme.
The Daimler, nicknamed Fiery Liz, was apparently spotted in south London on February 17, the day the scheme was introduced.
It was identified by its number plate, Y99, and a 40 pound fine was sent to staff at the museum in Bristol where the car has been housed for the past 25 years.
"We were surprised to get the paperwork because the Daimler has not moved under its own power for decades," museum curator Andrew King told Thursday's Daily Telegraph.
The scheme's organisers accepted the penalty notice might be one of a number of "individual errors" in the scheme, which aims to cut traffic in central London by 15 percent.
Drivers who fail to pay the five-pound charge for entering central London face fines ranging from 40 to 120 pounds, depending on how quickly they pay.
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