A driver has been handed a London ULEZ fine – despite never being within 100 miles of London.

Motorists are being slapped with the penalty charges as camera blunders are incorrectly identifying cars as being within the UK capital’s Ultra Low Emission Zone, which is an attempt lead by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to clear the city’s air of car pollution.

In one case a car owner was sent a fine relating to non-payment of ULEZ for his Ford Mondeo when it was parked hundreds of miles away in Greater Manchester. Not only that – the car that had been photographed by Transport for London (TfL) was actually a Nissan SUV.

Arthur Bailey, a retired designer from Greater Manchester explained that his son has been sent the penalty through the post.

He told the Telegraph: “My son received a penalty charge from them with the registration number and correct details of his vehicle.”

He added: “However the vehicle in the attached photograph, the ‘proof’ of the alleged crime, was clearly a completely different vehicle to his, possibly a Nissan SUV and certainly not the Ford Mondeo he owned which had never been within a hundred miles of London.”

TfL later established that Mr Bailey’s number plate had been cloned and used on another car and it has since waived the fine.

Other cases include Charles Cooper, 65, who was handed a series of ULEZ fines even though he’d donated his vehicle to the Ukraine to help in its war effort last summer.

A TfL spokesman said it was investigating the case and that it has “procedures to deal with these issues and where people have been charged incorrectly they will be refunded.”

Express.co.uk has contacted TfL for comment.

At the beginning of the month, we reported the case of a driver left furious after she was given a ULEZ fine – despite not even being in the car at the time.

The woman, named Louise, was shocked when she received a letter ordering her to pay a £12.50 charge on her Kia, after she had sold it 10 days earlier.

She was even more stunned when she saw the accompanying picture, which showed her car on the back of a transporter lorry on the way to auction in Enfield, north London.

ULEZ operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on every day of the year, except Christmas Day. The zone operates across all London boroughs, and does not include the M25.

If your vehicle doesn’t meet the ULEZ emissions standards and isn’t exempt, you need to pay a £12.50 daily charge to drive within the zone.