Car causing obstruction

Herzlos

Can you get a car blocked in, and then complain to the police?

Blocked is somewhat subjective, if say, the complainer has mobility problems.

Maybe phone the hospital the pass is for and pop into the hospice; it's entirely possible that whoever left it there is too distracted to realise that the car is causing an obstruction or has taken ill or something and no-one knows its there. Tell them you're concerned about their health if the car has been abandoned for so long.

Umkomaas

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

Have you checked to see if the car is taxed and insured.

surveyor_101 wrote: »

Check it taxed and mot'd

How do you do any of this?

HappyMJ

Umkomaas wrote: »

How do you do any of this?

By going to http://ownvehicle.askmid.com/ and ticking the box saying you own the car. You're in breach of the T's and C's but what's the worst that could happen? The police turn up at your door and arrest you. I don't think so.

You cannot use the information you obtain to inform the police as you would have to admit you did use the service in breach of the T's and C's.

Get a friend to do it and tell you the answer.

martinsurrey

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

Post #4 - I also wondered about this. There is no dropped kerb. Does that mean it's ok to block access to the drive?

its not a drive, without a dropped curb its illegal do get a car into it, so to complain about an obstruction you would have to tell the police "I broke the law (getting the car in) and now I need your help to break the law again (get it out)"

Herzlos wrote: »

Can you get a car blocked in, and then complain to the police?

Blocked is somewhat subjective, if say, the complainer has mobility problems.

Maybe phone the hospital the pass is for and pop into the hospice; it's entirely possible that whoever left it there is too distracted to realise that the car is causing an obstruction or has taken ill or something and no-one knows its there. Tell them you're concerned about their health if the car has been abandoned for so long.

Manxman_in_exile

dazster - thank you for your contribution.


Before we moved to this city 30 years ago we would never have dreamt of parking on the pavement. But here, many people living in the city have to, for the reasons I mentioned both above and in another post last December.


There is nowhere else to park as most of the streets within a mile radius (and other parts of this city) are afflicted with the same problem - having to park on the pavement. I don't know how many people own cars within that area but I can't see them volunteering to sell their cars so as not to park on the pavement. Nor can I see them deciding to move house just to avoid parking on the pavement. Neither of these suggested alternatives are either realistic or reasonable.


You will no doubt be intensely irritated by me trying to justify what you see as inconsiderate and obstructive parking, but believe me, pavement parking is possible here without inconveniencing or obstructing pedestrians. There's an infants' school at one end of the street and a hospice on one side. Mother's with buggies and patients with wheelchairs can all pass freely without obstruction. The only inconsiderate parking here is the pi11ock blocking the drive across the road.


As for the police not being able to identify the drivers, I've just come back from getting my haircut and in three streets saw eight drivers in the act of parking on the pavement. If the police wanted to enforce this (which they don't because they know there is no reasonable alternative) it would be as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.


Designating only parts of the pavement for parking would not be a solution as this city was not built with cars in mind, and yes, there are too many cars here, but no, nobody is going to get rid of their car. And anyway, simply designating something as legal that was previously illegal doesn't really achieve much does it? It's simply not enforced for perfectly understandable reasons.


btw, the city council is notoriously anti-car and, believe me, if they thought that pavement parking was an issue they'd have fixed it by now.


(ps - I'm not particularly pro-car but I fully accept that cars and pavement parking are a fact of life here. And no, I'm not selling either my car or my house. That'd be daft).

Coupon-mad

Local roads near me are the same and all cars park half up on the pavements and have done for over 25 years. I do understand the sort of road you are describing and if cars didn't park the way they do in such roads, there would certainly be obstruction every day.

Manxman_in_exile

OK - no dropped kerb so therefore no obstruction.


Looks like a complaint to the hospital.

Manxman_in_exile

Tax expires on 1st June.

nigelbb

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

OK - no dropped kerb so therefore no obstruction.


Looks like a complaint to the hospital.

A complaint about what? You have already said that the car isn't causing an obstruction.

The hospital cannot give you the name of the permit holder without breaching the Data Protection Act. They might just possibly pass on a message to the owner. Why not tell the hospital that the driver has left their lights on & you are concerned that they will return & find they have a dead battery?

The_Slithy_Tove

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Local roads near me are the same and all cars park half up on the pavements and have done for over 25 years. I do understand the sort of road you are describing and if cars didn't park the way they do in such roads, there would certainly be obstruction every day.

It's being mooted to make pavement parking illegal* in the same way as it is in London. It annoys the hell out of me round where I live, as parking with 2 wheels on the pavement only helps to block it for pushchairs, the blind (there's one old lady who gets quite narked about it), etc., and doesn't afford any extra usable width on the road itself.

(*or the decriminalised equivalent)