Crashed into neighbour's car

No I didn’t miss it and I agree you are BU.
However, I don’t understand why you begrudge paying for the damage when it was your fault reversing into a parked car.
I do feel some empathy though, everyone makes mistakes and although really annoying no one was injured.

My cousin hit an electric milk float (the ones that drive super slowly( 20 years ago and we still laugh about it now as she claims it "came out of nowhere".

Op -I'm sure you are super frustrated but as I agree they won't park there again!

Not every car has parking sensors.

Did you really crash into their car, or was that hyperbole? Surely you know that you have to go slowly and carefully when entering or leaving your drive - ideally reversing in and driving forwards out?

It's not necessarily bad if people park opposite your driveway, depending on the road and parking demand. If you have a drive, you already have the right to take what would otherwise be another public parking space away from the general supply, in order to have 24-hour access to your drive; you can't seriously expect to take two spaces away?

If you have a drive, you have the right to be able to access it whenever you want to, but you don't have the right to be able to sweep leisurely in and out without a care in the world. In the real world, you may well have to manoeuvre to get on or off your drive, as the road doesn't just exist solely for your benefit.

My neighbour opposite has paved over her front garden and dropped the curb so she can park there, but was annoyed when I parked outside my house on the road (I have a front garden with plants in it) as it makes it harder for her to turn in/out to park in her driveway.
To be honest I thought it was a bit cheeky of her to prevent anyone else being able to park in the street outside her house and to think she should also be able to stop people parking outside my house too!
When I first moved here the parking was OK-ish but now is a nightmare as so many neighbours have dropped their curbs.

But the car might have been a child, dog or anything - you were lucky it was a car. You are totally beyond unreasonable.

Do they know it was you?

Just act dumb and deny all damage if not.

My sisters claim to fame is that she reversed their Range Rover , which has cameras and sensors everywhere into a JCB .
Her husband still teases her about the 10ft bright yellow thing ... yeah she didn't see it .
We laugh about it now , obviously not at the time .

@jiporin

im sorry the stupid twat parked like...the twat he is. Inconsiderate prick.

you appear to have attracted all the perfect pollys this morning.😤😤😤

you should have just said ''you'll find you have a mark/dentwalloping bash in your front panel/door panel/whatever. I advised you not to park there' and walked off.

obviously you're going to have to pay for it, but make him think & have to come to you!

feel free to spend the rest of the day calling him all names under the sun!!

Even worse when they are the only person who didn't park on the curb so you had to do full lock and a 3 point turn to get off....also meant it was impossible for even an advance driver to reverse on! We had firemen and police in the street who all couldn't get on if someone parked fully on the road opposite their drives. The kids played in the road and moved for cars coming so it was perfectly safe to walk down plus as a dead end it was only us using it. Luckily I only hit our own bin store. Would never buy a new build again!

I would let the insurance fight it out if the car is causing an obstruction it could go 50:50 or even the threat of you blaming them through insurance might stop it or encourage them to mount the curb.

I reversed into a neighbours car once too, OP. They were very nice about it. Invited me to their Christmas drinks later that month (never had before).

It happens. I hope the damage isn't too bad. Also hope they will stop parking there in future.

Let the neighbour claim from you insurance. It will give them a lot of hassle and hopefully they won’t park there again. Everyone is right though about not reversing out of your driveway.

@jiporin I truly sympathise.
I reversed into a speedboat once, I mean it was on a trailer opposite our driveway.
Years ago before sensors were a thing.
Of course I've never been allowed to forget the incident.

I feel your pain. My neighbour oppsite parks directly in front of my driveway on the road despite building their own driveway this summer! And then my next door neighbour parks right outside my house next to my driveway and it's a nightmare having to do a 6 point turn just to get off!

It's not the neighbours fault that you don't look where you are going

Of course they didn't miss it but it makes some people's day to be able to make someone else feel stupid.

If it makes you feel any better, I did exactly the same thing, having had exactly the same conversation with my neighbours. To make matters worse, it was the morning of DS2’s christening and I was already stressed to fuck, so it was the icing on the (christening) cake, quite frankly.

They stopped parking there and started using their bastarding drive after that.

People Park like dicks.
Other people drive like dicks.
It tends to be very expensive when those 2 things meet each other. Just apologise and pay.

Same here, no car I’ve ever owned has parking sensors. My current car is nearly 16 years old. My husband’s car has them and he’s got so used to them, he couldn’t imagine being without them.

You know not all cars have parking sensors, right?

Why is everyone on Mumsnet so bloody self righteous?! It makes me want to delete the app.
I understand your frustration, OP.

Not everyone has parking sensors ;)

I've done it OP (no I don't have parking sensors) it's insanely annoying because you know it's your fault and you just have to deal with it. The plus side is, you'll not do it again ;)
I hope you have a decent relationship with your neighbours and it's all sorted out without too much drama.

Unfortunately I have the same issue with people parking directly opposite my drive so I feel your pain! Also it's sometimes tricky to reverse on to the drive when inconsiderate cars are already parked opposite so to all those saying you shouldn't be reversing off when you leave, it's not always that simple.

I hit a car while revercing over the summer (the car next to me. It was a very odd and unlucky how everything happend
Obviously my fault. And no parking cenceors in any of the cars Ive driven 😅) minimal speed. I mean as slowly as it is humanly possible to drive. Still apparently the damage to the other car was worth £3000.

The parking sensors would have been screaming though. Hopefully any damage was minimal, reversing is usually done at very low speed.