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Sleeping cab driver angry that traffic wardens left ticket without checking he was alive

A TAXI DRIVER has criticised traffic wardens who gave him £50 ticket while he slept – claiming they should have checked whether he was alive first.

Steve Woodwards, 41, pulled over for a quick nap in an empty short-stay car park at 7am but nodded off before buying a ticket.

When he woke up 20 minutes later he discovered a traffic warden had crept up to the car and stuck a £50 penalty notice on his windscreen.

Mr Woodwards, from Swindon, Wilts., admits he was illegally parked but says the warden should have checked he wasn’t dead behind the wheel.

He said: ’’I just think it is absolutely ridiculous and laughable.

’’This person had no consideration as to whether I was alive, I could have been in a coma or seriously ill.“

Mr Woodwards has agreed to pay the fine but branded the traffic warden’s actions as ’‘stupid’’.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .