son hit neighbours car

elvis86

Monkeynut wrote: »

And just a quick note to people who are going on about the parking a mile away from home thing - lets not forget that this neighbour has several cars, so it's not as if this is the only car he uses. Someone choosing to have several cars should have first thought about parking or storage for them.

Hope things stay friendly between the OP and neighbour, let us know what happens.

I absolutely appreciate that this guy having 5 cars may be a bit inconsiderate (and that they may be a bit of an eyesore if he's a tinker and they're all on bricks etc!). However, in fairness, the OP has said that 3 of these are parked on his driveway.

What I'm saying is, that often houses only have space for one car on the driveway (if there is a driveway at all), but that for quite legitimate reasons, a household may have more than one car. A couple with 2 adult children at home may have 4 cars, 3 of which they are unable to accomodate on their driveway. I just don't think it's fair or practical to say that parking partly on the pavement is always wrong or inconsiderate.

Ideally there would be ample off-street parking for everyone, but unfortunately that's just not the case, so people have to make the best of a bad situation.

DUTR

Also if the complainant does not have a lowered kerb then the cars should not be on the garden.

Mids_Costcutter

elvis86 wrote: »

I absolutely appreciate that this guy having 5 cars may be a bit inconsiderate (and that they may be a bit of an eyesore if he's a tinker and they're all on bricks etc!). However, in fairness, the OP has said that 3 of these are parked on his driveway.

What I'm saying is, that often houses only have space for one car on the driveway (if there is a driveway at all), but that for quite legitimate reasons, a household may have more than one car. A couple with 2 adult children at home may have 4 cars, 3 of which they are unable to accomodate on their driveway. I just don't think it's fair or practical to say that parking partly on the pavement is always wrong or inconsiderate.

Ideally there would be ample off-street parking for everyone, but unfortunately that's just not the case, so people have to make the best of a bad situation.

The situation you describe is not typical: in Birmingham only 0.77% of households have 4 or more cars. I'm sure that in other parts of the country it's not that much higher. As others have pointed out if you're buying a car you really have to think about where you're going to park it. Unless a real emergency I can't think of a situation where pavement parking is acceptable.

elvis86

DUTR wrote: »

Also if the complainant does not have a lowered kerb then the cars should not be on the garden.

Jesus! Where are we allowed to park our cars?!

elvis86

Mids_Costcutter wrote: »

The situation you describe is not typical: in Birmingham only 0.77% of households have 4 or more cars. I'm sure that in other parts of the country it's not that much higher. As others have pointed out if you're buying a car you really have to think about where you're going to park it. Unless a real emergency I can't think of a situation where pavement parking is acceptable.

Whilst perhaps not "typical", I would suggest that in the suburbs this figure is considerably higher, and that 2+ car households are pretty common. They certainly are where I grew up (which isn't particularly prosperous, just a regular housing estate in the midlands). Of the 20 houses in my parents' street, I can think of 11 houses with 2 cars and 3 houses with 3 cars.

DUTR

elvis86 wrote: »

Jesus! Where are we allowed to park our cars?!

Anywhere that is legal and not on the footway. The whole saga of this post is difficult, it seems there maybe a 50/50 liability. But as mentioned if the car owner tinkers about with cars then I'm sure the repair is within his remit which makes it sound like he is trying it on.

Kitty_Ears

Just a thought, if he tinkers with cars all the time, can't he fix it himself? Similar thing happens to my car; my dad bought some paints and sorted out the dent himself.

Tropez

Kitty_Ears wrote: »

Just a thought, if he tinkers with cars all the time, can't he fix it himself? Similar thing happens to my car; my dad bought some paints and sorted out the dent himself.

Just because he tinkers with cars, it doesn't mean he's actually any good at fixing them!

It could be that he's more into the electronic side of cars - fitting in new entertainment systems, retrofitting gadgets like onboard computers and the like, or maybe he's more of an engine guy?

Or possibly he's the type of tinkerer that just mucks around and messes things up even more?

Margaret52129

When we were living in our first house it was on a small cul-de-sac and not all the houses had drives. Ours had a shared driveway but we were on an uphill slope so all the kids used our gates as the goal posts. We didn't have our car damaged, but many a time the plants got flattened! Our adjoining neighbour had 2 of the said kids, and all was ok till his glass door was shattered. Then, of course, things changed!

When we moved we looked for a house with its own driveway and garage. Even then, with our car in our gated driveway some kid decided to play 'tennis' with stones - and guess who's car got damaged! We had to pay for our own repairs as none of our neighbours owned up to their child doing any damage, and it cost us over £200 to get it fixed :mad:

But, having said that, if we parked on the path and blocked it and it had got damaged, we would feel it would have been our fault mainly, and even though we would have found out who had done any damage, under those circumstances, would have sorted it out ourselves.

elvis86

Margaret52129 wrote: »

When we were living in our first house it was on a small cul-de-sac and not all the houses had drives. Ours had a shared driveway but we were on an uphill slope so all the kids used our gates as the goal posts. We didn't have our car damaged, but many a time the plants got flattened! Our adjoining neighbour had 2 of the said kids, and all was ok till his glass door was shattered. Then, of course, things changed!

Unfortunately there are often people like that. We used to have an older neighbour who would really quite unneccesarily tell us off for playing quite harmlessly at the top of our cul-de-sac. My mum always taught us to respect our elders, even if they were wrong, but she often told us that when this neighbour's kids were younger 10 years previously, they used to play exactly like we did. How quickly some people forget..