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A warning has been issued over a "frustrating" epidemic sweeping car parks in England. 75 per cent who have used a mobile app to pay for parking in the last 12 months experienced difficulties doing so, the RAC has warned.

Of those that ran into problems, top of the list of frustrations by a considerable margin is a lack of reliable mobile phone signal in the car park (70%).

This was followed by the mobile app not correctly recognising the car park the driver was in (36%), and the app in question crashing (35%). RAC senior policy officer Rod Dennis said: “There’s no doubt mobile apps have an important and increasing role to play when it comes to parking our vehicles, and the best ones make parking an easier task.

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