Re: Inconsiderate Parking

[Duke Fame]

I would have thought parents would do better to walk their kids to school, it would stop them getting fat.

Also don't kids walk to school with their mates anymore. It was considered a bit Mr Humphries to have your parents pick you up when I was at school.

[Razzle]

You can ask the Council to paint a white line across your drive.  This does not cost anything as we have had one painted across our driveway.

[JMC]

Why don't you just go to them and politely tell them they are causing an unnecessary obstruction and please move. If they don't then call the police and make it willful obstruction.
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I have asked people parked accross the pavement to move on two occasions. Both times I was verbally abused and mocked and told to take my baby into the road and not to scratch the car and that she would be late if she moved it to the numerous safe places to park within yards. In one case it was someone from the school PTA and church (she certainly wasn't acting like a christian) and she has been rude ever since! I should have taken a photo and reported it and maybe to the school too but what is done is done now. But I still wonder how this person cannot see she was in the wrong.

[alan@marple]

Why don't you just go to them and politely tell them they are causing an unnecessary obstruction and please move. If they don't then call the police and make it willful obstruction.
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Now is anything exciting happening in Marple and how is the campaign over the British Waterways yard doing- or has the campus taken over priority?

[My login is Henrietta]

Dale Road is fun at the moment at school times. One woman parks outside my house at 8.25am every day in order to bag herself and child an optimum parking spot, they then sit in the car for 15 mins, another parks her BMW opposite me at 2.45pm for the same reason. it is totally impossible to reverse out of my drive at these times, and I have to do a 93 point turn in order to get out. Last week I was walking (what? surely not?) home at 3.15 pm, there were small children on scooters and small bikes hurtling along both the pavement and in the road without any regard for traffic, and their parents were too busy chatting or texting to care. Do parents teach road safety any more?

It is actually an offence to reverse out of your drive (or from anywhere else) onto the highway. Perhaps it would make your life easier if you reversed into your drive when you get home?

the reason I often cannot reverse into my driveway is because of the inconsiderate parkers who park up on the kerb and encroach on the entrance to my driveway. And I don't think that a driveway is classed as a sideroad. If reversing out of driveways is indeed an offence, the police could quadruple their revenue from traffic violations every morning and evening!

The fact that it is regularly done does not make it either legal or sensible

[My login is Henrietta]

That's outrageous!

No it isn't. For the reason I gave earlier. Regardless of the other car's mounting of the pavement, the poster was committing an offence by reversing on to the higfhway. From the common sense p o v if s/he had been driving forwards out of his/her drive s/he would have been more likely to have seen the other vehicle.

And yes, there have indeed been prosecutions for the offence of reversing out of a private drive onto the highway.

[Tricky]

thank you.

You're welcome

 

[chicken lady]

Highway Code - 201 Do not reverse from a side road into a main road. When using a driveway, reverse in and drive out if you can.

In other words not a motoring offence to reverse out of your driveway, just advice.

Absolutely! As I said " it is totally impossible to reverse out of my drive at these times, and I have to do a 93 point turn in order to get out"  I do manage to drive out, albeit it takes a bit of manouvering. I was making a comment about inconsiderate parking, not asking for motoring or highway code advice thank you.

[Tricky]

"If you can."

not "if you can be bothered."


But then, most can't it would seem.

[HWL1973]

Highway Code - 201 Do not reverse from a side road into a main road. When using a driveway, reverse in and drive out if you can.

In other words not a motoring offence to reverse out of your driveway, just advice.

[JMC]

the reason I often cannot reverse into my driveway is because of the inconsiderate parkers who park up on the kerb and encroach on the entrance to my driveway.

In that case it is not your fault at all. I am sure parents were allowed to use the pub car park (or they used to be) but some parents just will not walk even five minutes.

[chicken lady]

Dale Road is fun at the moment at school times. One woman parks outside my house at 8.25am every day in order to bag herself and child an optimum parking spot, they then sit in the car for 15 mins, another parks her BMW opposite me at 2.45pm for the same reason. it is totally impossible to reverse out of my drive at these times, and I have to do a 93 point turn in order to get out. Last week I was walking (what? surely not?) home at 3.15 pm, there were small children on scooters and small bikes hurtling along both the pavement and in the road without any regard for traffic, and their parents were too busy chatting or texting to care. Do parents teach road safety any more?

It is actually an offence to reverse out of your drive (or from anywhere else) onto the highway. Perhaps it would make your life easier if you reversed into your drive when you get home?

the reason I often cannot reverse into my driveway is because of the inconsiderate parkers who park up on the kerb and encroach on the entrance to my driveway. And I don't think that a driveway is classed as a sideroad. If reversing out of driveways is indeed an offence, the police could quadruple their revenue from traffic violations every morning and evening!

[Tricky]

That's outrageous!

[admin]

Thank you tricky,I don't think anyone would get prosecuted for reversing out of there driveway.......

You can certainly get punished for it though. I was hit by a car that was driving with two wheels on the pavement, on the wrong side of the road, who was going to use my drop-kerb rather than bump down where he was parked further up, as I reversed out of my drive. I was still on the pavement when he hit me but the insurers decided it was my fault.

[bat man]

Thank you tricky,I don't think anyone would get prosecuted for reversing out of there driveway.......