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A Montreal man was hit with $749 in traffic fines last month after he double parked while dropping off his special needs son at school.

Luca Amico says he takes extra care when driving his son to school lately because the boy has been experiencing brain seizures. Amico’s son, a teenager, also has cerebral palsy.

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So when he dropped him off at school in St-Léonard on May 10, Amico pulled up up to the building, turned on his hazard lights and left the car running while he walked his son to the entrance.

“His doctor told me: ‘When you drop him off, watch him, make sure he gets in the school okay,’ ” said Amico, a business owner. “We’ve had to change his medication recently because of the seizures, so I’m just being careful.”

When Amico drove away, he was immediately pulled over.

“I hear the sirens and I was honestly confused,” he said. “I thought: ‘I know I didn’t go over 30 (kilometres an hour). What’s going on?’ ”

The officer told him he was double parked and he’d be getting a $53 fine. In retrospect, Amico said he probably should have just accepted the ticket and moved on. But in the moment, he said it felt like he hadn’t done anything wrong.

“I was worried about my kid and I walked him into the school and I got a ticket for it,” he said. “So I got out of my car and I walked over to the officer and I said: “Madame, is there any way you can tell me what I did wrong? My kid has an illness, I needed to take him into school.’ ”