Is this a hazard?

WaywardDriver

Picture shows "my" car (black) emerging from cul-de-sac with view to right obscured by red car which has been parked for last 7 days at front of neighbour's house; think car belongs to friends of theirs who are away on holiday This means if I want to turn either right or left, I have to inch out with bonnet sticking into road to see if safe to pull out.
Have spoken to neighbour who told me he can do whatever he wants on his own property. Is this correct or does this constitutes a hazard? Problem actually also affects neighbour and other residents.
Old photo as the cut-back below the black car belongs to me but is now tarmac and the hedge (bottom right) has been replaced by wooden fence which greatly improved the sight-line when turning left.
If you look closely at photo, you'll see neighbour's cut-back has a dropped kerb while mine is raised - we were told many years ago that drop-kerb not allowed as it would encourage visitors to park there and obscure sight-line.

Head_The_Ball

On a scale of 1 to 10 of all the hazards that we face driving, this is about a 1.

You shouldn't have any problems safely emerging. You should be able to see any traffic coming from the right through the red car's windows before your front end protrudes into the road.

Most town and city junctions with on street parking have far worse sightlines than that.

Johno100

Looks like you get another vehicle down that track a couple of times a day.

If you feel you can't pull out onto that road safely then I think you should seriously consider giving up driving.

Undervalued

WaywardDriver wrote: »

Picture shows "my" car (black) emerging from cul-de-sac with view to right obscured by red car which has been parked for last 7 days at front of neighbour's house; think car belongs to friends of theirs who are away on holiday This means if I want to turn either right or left, I have to inch out with bonnet sticking into road to see if safe to pull out.
Have spoken to neighbour who told me he can do whatever he wants on his own property. Is this correct or does this constitutes a hazard? Problem actually also affects neighbour and other residents.
Old photo as the cut-back below the black car belongs to me but is now tarmac and the hedge (bottom right) has been replaced by wooden fence which greatly improved the sight-line when turning left.
If you look closely at photo, you'll see neighbour's cut-back has a dropped kerb while mine is raised - we were told many years ago that drop-kerb not allowed as it would encourage visitors to park there and obscure sight-line.

If you are entering and exiting your property by car without a dropped kerb then technically you are committing an offence by driving on the footway! So I would think carefully before complaining.

PasturesNew

Irritating, but not critical.

neilmcl

Undervalued wrote: »

If you are entering and exiting your property by car without a dropped kerb then technically you are committing an offence by driving on the footway! So I would think carefully before complaining.

He was referring to the verge having a kerb, not his driveway, which you can clearly see is dropped.

WaywardDriver

Johno100 wrote: »

Looks like you get another vehicle down that track a couple of times a day.

That "track" has a factory at bottom so lots of traffic.

WaywardDriver

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

You shouldn't have any problems safely emerging. You should be able to see any traffic coming from the right through the red car's windows before your front end protrudes into the road.

Normally yes but red car has been overflown by flock of birds with loose bowels so view through windscreen obscured.

spadoosh

It depends on your definition of hazard. IM a numbers person so would point out it has the potential to cause a hazardous situation, that said the probability of such an even t occurring would be so remote that you could more less say that it wouldnt happen. As such you can argue both.


If youre asking the question so you can go and ask someone to move it, no, no it not a hazard. If youre asking the question because youre teaching a learner driver that anything can be a hazard, then yes you could argue it is.

If you cant pull out of their safely, youre not fit to drive on UK roads, there will be far more hazardous things that you come across.

WaywardDriver

spadoosh wrote: »

It depends on your definition of hazard. IM a numbers person so would point out it has the potential to cause a hazardous situation, that said the probability of such an even t occurring would be so remote that you could more less say that it wouldnt happen. As such you can argue both.

Numbers person myself: Risk=Probability*Impact and agree Probability low but Impact high so Risk depends on how low is low.

spadoosh

WaywardDriver wrote: »

Numbers person myself: Risk=Probability*Impact and agree Probability low but Impact high so Risk depends on how low is low.

Probability is dictated by the ability and observational skills of the driver, in my instance low would be infinitesimally small. Multiply it out over the largest possible impact and that risk would be negligible. Therefore, no hazard.

If youre a bad driver, that risk is increased, therefore hazard.

So the only person who can answer your question is you, based on your driving ability.

Obviously its an equation so can be worked backwards......

Do you think its a hazard?