Petition Ban parking charges in motorway rest areas/service stations

Ban parking charges in motorway rest areas/service stations for stays of under 12 hours so that tired drivers are encouraged to stop and recuperate, for free, before continuing their journey (as is common practice in other developed countries such as France).
Tiredness kills, as does profiteering.

More details

From the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents:

"...research shows that driver fatigue may be a contributory factor in up to 20% of road accidents, and up to one quarter of fatal and serious accidents.

These types of crashes are about 50% more likely to result in death or serious injury as they tend to be high speed impacts because a driver who has fallen asleep cannot brake or swerve to avoid or reduce the impact."

https://www.rospa.com/Road-Safety/Advice/Drivers/driver-health

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

111 signatures

Show on a map

10,000

Date closed 12 September 2020
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.