My parked car keeps getting scratched by passing traffic

spiritus

We live in a terraced house around a 1000 metres from a private school.
Our car is parked outside our house right on the apex of a curve in the road. Like many streets in the UK it is technically a two way street but due to parked cars it becomes a one way street. The location of our parked car is unfortunate as it is right at the point of the road where cars approaching each other in opposite directions spot each other for the first time. The patient drivers will stop and allow the oncoming vehicle to pass but the impatient ones will try to squeeze through moving closer to our car in the process.
During school pick up time the road is gridlocked and I have stopped torturing myself by looking out of our window at this time as the stress of seeing cars just squeeze past our parked car is too much to take.
Our car has now been scratched three times in exactly the same spot (rear passenger wheel arch panel).
The simple solution would be to park the car elsewhere on the street but is there anything else that anyone can suggest?

Car_54

Nothing anyone can suggest is likely to be better than the simple solution.

KimJongUn88

So you openly admit to parking on the apex of a corner which is causing an obstruction.  
You also openly admit to parking so as to reduce the width of the carriageway to a single lane.
You have caused this situation yourself.  

jacsll55

spiritus said:

We live in a terraced house around a 1000 metres from a private school.
Our car is parked outside our house right on the apex of a curve in the road. Like many streets in the UK it is technically a two way street but due to parked cars it becomes a one way street. The location of our parked car is unfortunate as it is right at the point of the road where cars approaching each other in opposite directions spot each other for the first time. The patient drivers will stop and allow the oncoming vehicle to pass but the impatient ones will try to squeeze through moving closer to our car in the process.
During school pick up time the road is gridlocked and I have stopped torturing myself by looking out of our window at this time as the stress of seeing cars just squeeze past our parked car is too much to take.
Our car has now been scratched three times in exactly the same spot (rear passenger wheel arch panel).
The simple solution would be to park the car elsewhere on the street but is there anything else that anyone can suggest?

Put a cone by the wheel & let them scratch the cone. Depends where you live. In my village it won't be a problem with the cone.

Johno100

KimJongUn88 said:

So you openly admit to parking on the apex of a corner which is causing an obstruction.  
You also openly admit to parking so as to reduce the width of the carriageway to a single lane.
You have caused this situation yourself.  

A curve is not the same as a corner. 
It also may come as a surprise to you that there are many narrow roads in this country that are by necessity reduced to a single carriageway by the parking of vehicles. Unless there are traffic restrictions preventing parking e.g.double yellow lines then the OP is doing nothing wrong.

basill

A few cars near me that park on busy but narrow roads have a reflective flag shut in the door that sticks out a bit to discourage close passing.
Like these Wingaware ones on Amazon.

Carrot007

So you park in a stupid place (please provide photo if you think otherwise) and are suprised by the outcome?

shaun_from_Africa

Johno100 said:

 Unless there are traffic restrictions preventing parking e.g.double yellow lines then the OP is doing nothing wrong.

"Doing nothing wrong" but still ending up with their car getting scratched.
It's a bit like pedestrians who walk out in front of cars approaching a zebra crossing even though there may not be time for the car to stop but they think they are "doing nothing wrong" as the car has to stop.

There's "doing nothing wrong" and there's doing the sensible thing which would be to park away from the curve.

facade

You could sell your car, and buy a sub-£300 banger, and take no notice. When someone eventually hits it hard enough to render it undriveable, you whip the battery off for the next car, call a scrap collector and buy another. No need to claim on your insurance ever again, and loads of money saved on depreciation

EdGasketTheSecond

But you might not be able to drive far either otherwise we'd all be getting £300 cars wouldn't we?

George_Michael

One thing to bear in mind.
Should the worst happen and there is a coming together of vehicles that results in a claim, should they find out about the previous incidents then it would be perfectly legal for your insurance company to cancel your policy for non disclosure.
Very unlikely to happen but nonetheless, still feasible.