Neighbour blocking my car in (on the street)

bigpound

You should see this as an oppurtunity to make some cash, offer to rent out your drive to her customers for a monthly cost. I take it you don't mind a short walk.

Tilt

Blocking someone IN (preventing them from LEAVING) is an offence but not the other way round. The OPs brother should be able to confirm this.

NAP6W

The Police will not get involved as it is a civil dispute. You can go to court over it but only if she blocks access to your driveway. If it is street parking it is every man for themselves.

fivetide

Get a Hummer with a winch. Tow her out of the way.

5t.

Tilt

NAP6W wrote: »

The Police will not get involved as it is a civil dispute. You can go to court over it but only if she blocks access to your driveway. If it is street parking it is every man for themselves.

Not if the OP is being prevented from LEAVING his driveway it isn't because he is being denied access to the public highway which is obstruction. The police have the power to remove the offending vehicle.

Strider590

Trolley jack, take their car for a walk into the middle of the street, then call the cops

Lum

If you do take photos of the obstruction, be sure to take it from multiple angles, as a minimum side on showing how close they are, and front/back diagonals showing their number plates.

If there is room, photos straight into the gap, with number plates visible too would be good.

If you want to be extra paranoid, use a film camera, and have both the first and the last shot be the side-on overview, then the positions of the photos on the film will demonstrate that the in-between photos were, indeed, taken whilst those two cars were like that.

mrcow

My neighbour does this.

He did it to me once. So I called the police who sent a car round. The neighbour was NOT happy at all - that's the thing with bullies - they can't take it when you stand up to them.

He stills blocks people in from time to time, but he NEVER does it to me

Wig

Woody. wrote: »

Corrected that for you, it's not wilful until they have been asked by the police to move it.

I believe you are wrong.

(i) was there an obstruction
(ii) was the obstruction deliberate?
(iii) was the obstruction without lawful excuse?
(iv) in the event of (iii) being answered 'no'......was the activity a reasonable user of the highway?


If you get three yes answers it adds up to wilful obstruction. The act of deliberately blocking another car in is wilful obstruction, with or without a police request to move. Where you are going wrong, is that on most occasions a police officer will give the benefit of the doubt and ask someone to move on, if they refuse then it becomes deliberate. The police request, however, is not essential, if it can be shown that obstruction was deliberate from the outset. In the OP case the neighbour uses 2 of her cars to box someone in from both sides, thus making it imposible to argue that it was accidental. Even with one car it would be seen as deliberate, because everyone knows to park mm away from another bumper requires deliberate precision.

Wig

NAP6W wrote: »

The Police will not get involved as it is a civil dispute. You can go to court over it but only if she blocks access to your driveway. If it is street parking it is every man for themselves.

Not if it is deliberate bumper to bumper parking making leaving impossible. The OP is not talking about driveway blocking.

Tilt wrote: »

Not if the OP is being prevented from LEAVING his driveway it isn't because he is being denied access to the public highway which is obstruction. The police have the power to remove the offending vehicle.

The OP is not talking about driveway blocking anyway.