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Dropped Kerb Parking - Can I Get A Fine?
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Are we in Scotland or England or Wales? If in Scotland then it's a criminal and not civil offence to allow your vehicle to cause an unnecessary obstruction resulting in an non endorsable fixed penalty or if you cant be located locally then your car can be impounded under police powers. An Unneccessary Obstruction covers many different offences from parking on a footpath to stopping someone entering OR exiting their property. It's down to the particular obstruction caused at the particular time. A good example is stopping to drop off or pick up kids outside a school on the yellow keep clear markings at 8.45 in the morning...most probably causing an obstruction. Parking on same yellow keep clear markings at 9.45 when it's deserted...most probably not an obstruction. Causing a nuisance to someone is not the same as obstructing them but it's a fine line so be careful.
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Parking always a hot topic when people found out OH was a Police Officer and when he attended community meetings.
According to OH you can block a driveway providing you are not preventing access to the Highway. Therefore if there is no car in the drive or garage then you can park in front of it. You legally have no right of vehicular access to your driveway.
Councils charge you to paint white lines across driveways. These white lines have no effect in law. i.e. you can park on them. They are nothing more than a pretty painted line, not covered by the RTA, just to alert people to the fact that you might cause obstruction to the highway if you block a car IN.
Police officers do have the right to book you or more commonly request you to move a vehicle due to obstruction. This is at their discretion if they feel a vehicle is causing an obstruction and they can substantiate this.
A car parked across your driveway stopping you driving IN to your property is not causing an obstruction providing it is parked legally on the highway i.e. no double yellow lines or other road markings enforceable under the RTA.
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