{"id":6478,"date":"2025-06-16T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:34:30","slug":"woman-charged-nearly-4600-for-two-hour-car-park-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/woman-charged-nearly-4600-for-two-hour-car-park-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged nearly \u00a34,600 for two hour car park stay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mother-of-two Yaditi Kava was accidentally charged \u00a34,586 for a two-hour car park stay due to a faulty machine (Picture: Facebook\/Yaditi Kava)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A mother was charged more than \u00a34,500 for a two-hour parking stay.<\/p>\n

Yaditi Kava, 39, was shocked to find \u00a34,586 taken out of her account for what should have been a \u00a34.50 charge in a shopping centre car park.<\/p>\n

She had been out on a trip with her two girls before she returned to the multi-storey car park to find the pay stations not working and decided to pay at the barrier instead.<\/p>\n

Due to a fault with the machine, she was debited thousands of pounds after leaving Queensmere Observatory Shopping Centre in Slough.<\/p>\n

Yaditi told the BBC<\/a> that she thought the \u20184,5\u2019 displayed on the parking barrier screen was \u00a34.50 only to receive a text message informing her she had paid more than 100 times that amount for the parking session.<\/p>\n

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Savills, which runs Queensmere Observatory Shopping Centre in Slough, said the technical fault was an ‘isolated incident’ (Picture: Google)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘It was surreal – I just couldn’t fathom that they had taken that money’, she said.<\/p>\n

The experience was so stressful that Yaditi said she nearly cancelled her daughter’s birthday party.<\/p>\n

Despite being promised the money would be back in her account within three days, it took more than three weeks for her to be reimbursed and only after the mother-of-two reported the incident to The JVS Show, a radio programme hosted by Jonathan Vernon-Smith.<\/p>\n

Yaditi said: ‘It was a godsend – One call from Jonathan, and the next day the money was in my bank.’<\/p>\n

The car park operator, Savills, said the fault was an ‘isolated incident’ which it was investigating to prevent it occurring again.<\/p>\n

It said: ‘We have been in regular contact with the customer to rectify the issue as a matter of priority and can confirm a full refund is being processed.’<\/p>\n

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