Member of public photographed cars on white zigzag lines!

caprikid1

Whilst I find parking on White Zig Zags disgusting, lazy and unacceptable I find photographing those doing it and uploading it to the police questionable but they are there for the protection of the public so why not.


We cannot tell you what the police / courts would do, if you feel that bad and bitter do the same to everyone else.
Not sure what you are trying to achieve, you broke the law someone grassed you up.

TooManyPoints

The offence is not related to the proportion of the zig-zag area that your vehicle occupies. The offence is parking in the area covered by them. The other examples you mention seem equally actionable but unfortunately the fact that they may not have been (as far as you know) does not help you.

custardy

Collyflower1 wrote: »

Why would i be winding anyone up?

Just a couple of points 1. Do the white zigzag lines always cover the same distance? I paced out 30 paces, so approximately 30 yards of which my car took up approximately 5 yards. So, a clear 25 yards free in front until the pedestrian crossing. (i'm not trying to absolve blame bytheway!)
2. My local one stop shop is a different situation than the high street one in the Dorset tragedy above. Just one shop and then a row of 5 terraced houses to its right. Houses in the lead up to the delivery entrance to the shops left. It is a main road though!! The crossing starts after the drive of the final terrace.

This morning i walked down to the shop for my paper again. There was a white van parked on the white lines and also with its wheels on the pavement. More or less in the same place i was but taking up a greater area. Before i went into the shop i told the lad of the van's illegally parked situation and that i'd been snapped a few days previously. He said he'd tell his boss who was inside the first terraced house. I think it was a removals van. I went into the shop , bought my paper, came out and the van was still there and was for a further 2-3 minutes before i walked back home.
After getting home i decided to drive down to see if the van was still there and it wasnt. But there was a postal van parked on the white lines , nearer to the pedestrian crossing, and the postman was just coming back to it. The postbox is situated quite near to the crossing .
So, are these also prosecutable offences?

The zig zags are as long as the need to be AFAIK.
All you demonstrate with the rest of your post is the innate entitlement many on the roads feel.
I laugh when I see 'war on motorists' as a headline. The roads are near lawless.
Go out and stand by a road in rush hour traffic and watch the use of mobile phones. I could go in.
Its an ABSOLUTE offence. If the postie has to walk to the box,then thats it. He/she needs to park legally and walk to it.

caprikid1

"All you demonstrate with the rest of your post is the innate entitlement many on the roads feel."


I suspect this is the case for the OP not just on the roads !. I suspect she is typical middle England.

custardy

caprikid1 wrote: »

"All you demonstrate with the rest of your post is the innate entitlement many on the roads feel."


I suspect this is the case for the OP not just on the roads !. I suspect she is typical middle England.

Nah. I have to disagree. See it every day.

AdrianC

Collyflower1 wrote: »

So, are these also prosecutable offences?

Yep. Why wouldn't they be?

The offence is parking on the zig-zags - technically, it'll go on a licence as PC30 - "Contravention of pedestrian crossing regulations with stationary vehicle"

You've already been pointed directly to both the HC rule and the legislation behind it.

custardy

Collyflower1 wrote: »

Why would i be winding anyone up?

Just a couple of points 1. Do the white zigzag lines always cover the same distance? I paced out 30 paces, so approximately 30 yards of which my car took up approximately 5 yards. So, a clear 25 yards free in front until the pedestrian crossing. (i'm not trying to absolve blame bytheway!)
2. My local one stop shop is a different situation than the high street one in the Dorset tragedy above. Just one shop and then a row of 5 terraced houses to its right. Houses in the lead up to the delivery entrance to the shops left. It is a main road though!! The crossing starts after the drive of the final terrace.

This morning i walked down to the shop for my paper again. There was a white van parked on the white lines and also with its wheels on the pavement. More or less in the same place i was but taking up a greater area. Before i went into the shop i told the lad of the van's illegally parked situation and that i'd been snapped a few days previously. He said he'd tell his boss who was inside the first terraced house. I think it was a removals van. I went into the shop , bought my paper, came out and the van was still there and was for a further 2-3 minutes before i walked back home.
After getting home i decided to drive down to see if the van was still there and it wasnt. But there was a postal van parked on the white lines , nearer to the pedestrian crossing, and the postman was just coming back to it. The postbox is situated quite near to the crossing .
So, are these also prosecutable offences?

Also. A little reminder. Its your responsibility as a driver to know the law.

Scrapit

The lines are there to provide lone of sight for those crossing and those vehicles approaching the crossing. Its should be obvious that anyone parking and therefore blocking this is doing so in dangerous way.

The fact that the OP feels there is some leeway dependant how much space they take up is quite worrying.

happyc84

agreed that its clear cut - dont park on zig-zags.


Round here in Glasgow South side the disregard for this is shocking.


perhaps op needs to redo driving test.

Joe_Horner

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

Don't be so lazy next time. The rules aren't optional ....

Unless your name is Alexander D B Johnson apparently.