Parking on the pavement

geri1965_2

Can anyone tell me if it is an offence under the Road Traffic Act to park on the pavement, and if so, under which section?

There is a car in my road that has been parked on the pavement for three days now - not just one or two wheels, but entirely on the pavement making it impossible to get past without walking in the road (which is usually bumper to bumper with traffic in the mornings anyway)!

At first I thought it was abandoned - I looked in it and there was all kinds of stuff in it, including a sleeping bag and a handbag on the seat! However, yesterday when I got home from work it wasn't there, so I thought it had been removed, but this morning it reappeared.

I'm thinking of leaving a polite note under the windscreen wiper, so if it is an offence I'd like to point it out.

vikingaero

I would call the Police if the car is obstructing the pavement so much that you cannot get past.

Altarf

If you are in London there is a specific offence of parking on a pavement, elsewhere it is just dealt with under the normal "causing an obstruction".

Police, or if you have decriminalised parking enforcement, your local authority.

Reggie_Rebel

Try and get past pushing a buggy, it may be a tight squeeze.

geri1965_2

Reggie_Rebel wrote: »

Try and get past pushing a buggy, it may be a tight squeeze.

It would be impossible! I doubt a person could get past, it's so close to the edge.

Anyway, they have moved it onto the other side of the road now - so they're off the hook for the time being!

Lemonade_Pockets

Section 244 of the highway code:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860

I only found out about it courtesy of a £50 parking fine the first time i drove to a friends house in London - don't have rules like that op in yorkshire. Ironically i had two wheels on a pavement that was almost as wide as the road and i only did so to cause less of an obstruction to other road users. I.e. if i parked in the road with out being on the pavement people would have to stop if there was traffic coming the otherway. As it was they didn't! Lol well it'll teach me to be contientious.

Antispam

Well if morons like that park on pavement and partly or wholly block a pavement then it will be most unfortunate if someone happens to go by and scratch the car either deliberately or accidentally

EDIT I do not suggest doing the above mealy was conveying that someone may or may not if there was a tight gap that a person could squeeze through they may or may not damage the vehicle deliberately or accidentally

Altarf

Antispam wrote: »

Well if morons like that park on pavement and partly or wholly block a pavement then it will be most unfortunate if someone happenw to go by and scratch the car either deliberately or accidentally

Well since you are advocating taking the law into your own hands, wouldn't you get their attention better if you slashed their tyres, or maybe set fire to it? Or perhaps murdering the driver so they can't do it again?

Lemonade_Pockets

Antispam wrote: »

Well if morons like that park on pavement and partly or wholly block a pavement then it will be most unfortunate if someone happens to go by and scratch the car either deliberately or accidentally

........Idiot

dzug1

Lemonade_Pockets wrote: »

Section 244 of the highway code:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860

- don't have rules like that op in yorkshire. .

You do - it's just that you don't enforce them

Altarf

dzug1 wrote: »

You do - it's just that you don't enforce them

Because as Highway Code 244 says, in London park on a pavement, absolute offence and you are bang to rights. Elsewhere the police have to prove that you are causing an obstruction, which is not always easy.