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If you have an empty driveway, it is rather selfish to park on the road, disability or not.
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IIhave a small drive way witch has a car that is currently sorn and needs some tlc tovget ot back on the road so my everyday car has to be parked on the street. I live down a small road but u can still get a refuse lorry down the road as every one parks on one side of the road. As long as the op isn't causing a obstruction then hes not doing anything wrong.
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If the car is taxed and insured the owner has every right to park it on a public road as long as it is complying with the parking restrictions.
That may be true within the letter of the law, but as drivers we all know that a car (with alternative parking space) left almost permanently on a narrowish? road can become a source of gentle road rage. It can also cause accidents by reducing visibility. Best avoided in the interest of good neighbourliness.
Edited by Andrew-T on 15/09/2013 at 11:20
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Went to daughter's yesterday for a family gathering, narrow-ish road, all houses with drives, a few cars parked on the road so we parked round the corner in a wider, empty road and walked.
One female relative appeared, parked opposite another car, almost opposite the drive of the house across the road. I suggested she moved it to minimise inconvenience, to which she replied "If they want it moved, they can come and knock".
This attitude is appalling, especially as this woman used to be a driving instructor.
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This attitude is appalling, especially as this woman used to be a driving instructor.
I wouldn't go as far as 'appalling' but it certainly seems arrogant and inconsiderate. The fact is that many regular drivers see cars as pieces of luggage which can be dropped almost wherever they are no longer needed, for collection as convenient. It's just unfortunate if other road users are inconvenienced.
The basic problem is that we live in a well-populated country, and there are now about as many vehicles as adults. But I think we need to redefine the relationship between vehicles, pedestrians and the places where each have priority, to take account of this. As the police turn blind eyes to parking on pavements, even with double yellows, we need a new set of ground rules.
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Some cheap video surveillance?
I thoroughly resent and reject the idea that a correctly-parked vehicle can in any way present a 'danger' for other road users...and I speak as a training professional, not a plumber with a driving licence!
But what we have is the incompetent majority,versus the competent minority..and it is the minority who are the easier target....
Easier to get the individual to accomodate , rather than compel the majority to up their game.
I see folk advocating parking on footpaths or pavements....the individual pushing a pram who cannot get past, is the inconvenienced minority...just as long as other car drivers don't have to work any harder at their driving skills dealing with a parked vehicle, that's ok?
To the OP? Has the letter [and any other evidence] been reported to the Police?
Whilst the letter on its own may not constitute much in a lay person's eyes, any further harrassment of any kind, once reported, can be added, thus creating a decent amount of evidence?
See my first line?
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I thoroughly resent and reject the idea that a correctly-parked vehicle can in any way present a 'danger' for other road users...
Some cheap video surveillance?
That depends how you choose to define 'correctly parked'. It may be legally correct, but still a nuisance - although maybe not to a lawyer.
And cheap video surveillance requires someone wasting much of their time staring at a screen(s) and then following up any contraventions. No, in the end the best solution is for all of us to avoid behaving selfishly or anti-socially. It isn't always difficult.
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That depends how you choose to define 'correctly parked'. It may be legally correct, but still a nuisance - although maybe not to a lawyer.
Every parked car, van, lorry, bus on a bus stop, roadworks, or traffic calming measure is a 'nuisance' to other road users.
Drivers would much, much prefer to have no obstacles to deal with.
Drivers and other road users don't like to have to 'work' at what they are doing.
So, when things don't go well, everybody likes to be able to 'blame' something...but, strangely, never their own inabilities to cope.
When I said 'correctly', I meant 'correctly'.
Not some wishy-wshy grey area..but, correctly.
IE legally, in accordance with the Highway Code!
What the complaints usually focus on, is ''having to slow/stop and give way'' when dealing with a parked car...or, drivers failing to observe, and conduct their hazard drills correctly, so they get 'caught out'.....
Then the parked vehicle gets 'blamed'!
Even if that parked vehicle is entirely,correctly, parked, in every respect.
Folk often confuse themselves when it comes to judging whether a vehicle is parked 'correctly' or not.
Aside from legaities, the main issue is, how much 'room' is there to pass?
However, there is no requirement to make it 'easy' for others to see [observe] around that parked vehicle........................ [otherwise every luton van driver would never ever park anywhere]...
The primary consideration is, how far away can that parked vehicle be seen ..........by approaching road users?
And it is the latter aspect that lay-drivers fail to accept.
Since it will involve working at their driving skills......and that is something drivers don't like to have to do.
Because it's inconvenient for them.
Edited by alastairq on 16/09/2013 at 11:54
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Alastairq - I'm sure you aren't targeting my posts in particular, but I hope you accept my drift that there is more to social road behaviour than simply not doing anything illegal or contravening the Highway Code. The OP was about parking on the road when less obstructive parking space was available on a nearby drive (albeit with personal reasons). None of that was illegal or 'blameworthy', to use your term. Just making life a little more awkward for other road users, and not necessarily while saying 'I may do it, so I shall'.
I suppose it is a bit like deciding who backs up when passing is impossible in a narrow lane. We don't know the width of the OP's street, but it may be similar?
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