car reversed from driveway

facade

It is not illegal to reverse off your driveway. Reversing over people, however would meet the ideal definition of careless driving* and it is most certainly the driver's responsibility to ensure that they don't hit anything when going backwards.

Driving across a pavement is even worse, and is only permitted when entering/exiting a premises where there is a dropped kerb, ( and obviously if you need to drive for 1/4 mile at high speed along it to pull up outside a shop, and can scatter pedestrians in all directions, and then force them to either climb over your car or walk on a busy road to get past)



*careless = the standard of driving falls below that of the average competent driver. I would argue that the average standard of driving I observe every day is now so low that this would be a very high hurdle to jump....

Car_54

Navigator123 wrote: »

Another one who does not read the highway code.

It is illegal to reverse on to the public highway. End of. No argument.

Now report it to the police and claim off of the car drivers insurance.

Don’t you just love the posters who say “End of. No argument.” when they are 100% wrong?

facade

The only place I can think of where it is illegal to reverse is a Motorway.

d0nkeyk0ng

Although not exactly the same, I was driving down our road, quite slowly and a driver reversed into me. They were coming out of their drive. Insurers found the driver liable.


Having said that, I had another accident several years before where I was driving on a main road and the third party pulled out of a side ride and drove into my offside front wing. Somehow that went down to 50/50.

AndyMc.....

facade wrote: »

Even without witnesses, she is going to have trouble explaining how it is in any way your fault that she reversed over you when you were on the road/pavement.


You need to report it to the Police, as you were injured (The Law says she must) and then with her registration number you can get her insurance details from the MID and claim directly from her insurer.



Happens to me all the time when walking the dog.
I see them come out of their house and get in the car as we are meandering up the street, but they can't be bothered to even notice us.
We steadily walk up the street on the pavement whilst they start their car and just sit there with the engine quietly ticking over, and sit there, and sit there.

Then at the exact instant that we are crossing their drive, they ram it into reverse and shoot backwards at high speed, as I haul the dog back out of their way.
They usually stop in the middle of the road, whilst horns blare and they start arguing that it is their right to just back straight off their drive without warning, and the cars are speeding as they appeared from nowhere.


They don't even notice that they would have run us over if I was partially sighted or didn't have the reactions of a cat.


Thoughtless? Careless? Ignorant? Arrogant? I know what I think...

It's stretching the road traffic act some what to say that.


More likely they'll deal with the criminal damage as it's easier to sort out.

twhitehousescat

do riders of disability things have to have an eye or hearing test?

AndyMc.....

twhitehousescat wrote: »

do riders of disability things have to have an eye or hearing test?

No and they are exempt from most of the road traffic act.

twhitehousescat

ahh that explains why they can break your ankle , laugh and ride off ,

parking_question_chap

twhitehousescat wrote: »

do riders of disability things have to have an eye or hearing test?

I think its kind of a given that both are faulty.

sheramber

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/introduction

Although failure to comply with the other rules of the Code will not, in itself, cause a person to be prosecuted, The Highway Code may be used in evidence in any court proceedings under the Traffic Acts (see The road user and the law) to establish liability. This includes rules which use advisory wording such as ‘should/should not’ or ‘do/do not’.