It’s an antiquated system that can be comically inefficient, plagued by vague and conflicting policies and shoddy recordkeeping.
After the unsuccessful search for his Honda, McEntee was forced to file a stolen-vehicle report and an insurance claim. He started thinking about buying a new car.Before finalizing the insurance claim, McEntee took a bike ride down to Pennsport. And there it was. Under I-95. About a mile from where he’d parked it.For each courtesy tow, handwritten driver logs are supposed to be faxed to the police radio room and district headquarters, then entered into a searchable database, according to police.
“What a nightmare,” said Chris Mauro, a lawyer in Center City who recently had his Acura courtesy towed about a mile away, apparently to make way for construction. As an added bonus, four tickets totaling more than $100 were left on the windshield. She is contesting them with the PPA. The relocation destinations vary widely. Some vehicles are moved a few blocks, others more than a mile away, police records show. The Inquirer’s analysis of police data identified a trash-strewn block of Ellsworth Street near 24th as a favorite dumping ground for towed vehicles — more than 110 tows to that area since 2016.
Of ticketed vehicles, Kinebrew said: “That shouldn’t happen. But if someone says it did, I’m not going to argue with them. That could’ve happened.”
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