Woman down €3,000 after car towed without her knowledge

A WOMAN had to fork out €3,000 for a new car after her old model was impounded for three weeks without her knowledge.

After discovering her car was missing from Cork city centre, Sarah O’Regan, 26, contacted gardaí and the city pound, but there was no record of her 93D Fiat Cinquecento.

After two weeks, she assumed her car was stolen and paid €3,000 for a Ford Ka which she needed for work. However, a week later she received a letter from the council informing her that her Cinquecento had been sitting in the pound for three weeks. The letter said she was liable for the €160 towing fee plus almost €600 in storage fees.