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I was leaving a business park on Friday morning when my car slid on black ice and hit the entrance gate. My car is damaged and the owner of the business park wants me to pay for damage to the gate. The...
Does parking in a close with five designated parking spots count as driveway parking?
Our road has motor vehicles restricted signs, with "except for access". What does this mean? Any normal person would assume this meant access to residences on the road. Not only are we plagued by cars...
Yesterday we received a delivery from Currys. The van driver parked his van close to my wife's car which was parked on private property, i.e. the tarmac frontage to our house. Unfortunately, one of the...
On Saturday evening between 7pm and 10pm I parked in the Rishworth Centre Retail Park in Dewsbury. As all the stores were closed and the parking notices did not refer to any restrictions other than two...
For two weeks I have seen the same person drive the wrong way around a local supermarket car park. Anyone can make a mistake so as I walked past I asked if he realised that it was one way. His astonishing...
My business (a doctor's surgery) is very close to a busy town centre and has its own car park for staff and patients. However we get numerous complaints from patients saying that parking is always a problem...
I read recently about a chap who had inadvertently driven down a private road, turned around at a convenient spot and made an exit from the area. He noticed he was being filmed doing this. Later he received...
I unwittingly drove down a dead end in Dalston and used a factory entrance to turn round. I noticed a man in uniform filming me. About a month later I got a bill for £300, for trespassing on private property....
I parked on yellow lines at a shopping mall car park which offers free parking throughout, when I returned to my car I had a ticket stuck to my windscreen. The ticket looks official enough, but people...