Random car outside my house, what can I do?

You should absolutely call the police non emergency line and explain the situation. Someone could need help.

101 is there especially for non-emergency calls, i.e. important but not urgent; and a shiny BMW obstructing tractors is exactly that. Go ahead and call them.

It's perfectly reasonable to call the police for this.

I reported some fly tipped carpet to the council and it was gone within the week so maybe if your council have a place to report abandoned vehicles it might be worth doing.

I find it quite odd that someone would wait a week before reporting a car that's been abandoned right outside their house and that is actually causing an obstruction too.

I'm all for myob to a point but in this case I'd have giving it 2 days max before ringing 101 or the council to report a highways obstruction.

Well maybe find out later there was a body slumped in the driver's seat but no-one thought to look..

Probably a stolen car phone the police station.

We had similar, car parked opposite our house. None of the neighbours knew anything about it. It didn’t move for over two weeks. I called the police non emergency number and they were very dismissive. 30 mins later two police cars arrived and the car was towed away. Never found out what the issue was presumably stolen and maybe used in crime?

phone 101

Ooh I love a mystery thread. Please keep us update OP! 😁

My in-laws ignored a parked car outside their house all over the Christmas and New Year periods, before finally reporting it. It had been stolen.
If they had reported it sooner the owner might have enjoyed their Christmas after all.

def report it to the police as suspicious.

Around here expensive cars get stolen, then left somewhere for a week to see if they have a tracker and someone claims it, if not, the thieves come back and move it on.

It being a brand new car left there, and no-one else locally knowing who's it is, would make me suspect its been nicked and left.

I contacted police and council when a car was dumped near me and parked badly, had 4 tyres slashed and exhaust falling off, leaking petrol so thought stolen/joy ride/ fire risk. Council put a sticker on it to say aware but said they couldn’t do anything to remove it for 2 weeks incase the owner came back. Police ran the plates but as hadn’t been reported stolen weren’t interested beyond that, so worth reporting it so they can do that and incase someone is in trouble who’s left it there?

We had a similar thing happen, again badly parked blocking a layby and just when our neighbours had months of works needed so their tradesmen had an awful time as a result. The council and police weren't interested until even when it had been there 5 months as it was insured and taxed. It turned out to belong to an angry man who lived 2 miles away when someone put it on Facebook and he simply said he had every right to park there ! It was frustrating as legally he was ok but caused daily inconvenience to our neighbours especially .

The only way to determine if it’s been stolen is to report it to the police. Do not touch the vehicle or attempt to open the doors or the boot……you might smudge any potential finger prints or evidence as it might have been used for criminal purposes.

This happened down our road it was there a few days parked fine but odd it hadn't moved. The neighbour reported to our local neighbourhood police team. It was stolen, they removed it, then came round asking if anyone had seen anything when it was abandoned. So ring 101 but I wouldn't do it after one day I'd assume the owner was coming back.

Report to 101.
It is possible its stolen - I was talking to a poor girl who’d had a medical emergency while driving, she went off in the ambulance and before her parents could get there to collect the car some bugger had stolen it!
it was found abandoned in a country lane a few days later…

Don’t forget that the owner must be foreign and dodgy.

The real issue is that its causing an obstruction

So get on to The Police

Well, if it’s anything like around here, you’d post it on the local Facebook group and then everyone would pile on you about being a busy body and 15 people would check the vehicle was taxed for you, and another 6 would complain about how anyone could drive around that and you must be a terrible driver. 😂

Yes, I’d report to police. You can probably do it online and just put all the details in. Being a new BMW, my money is on its stolen and dumped. They’re waiting to see if anyone reports it and then they’ll come back round and collect it during the night. You don’t want them back snooping round yours at 3am, so I’d get it gone asap.

https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/

You should be able to email your local neighbourhood police team via police.uk there’s a search function to locate the team and there should be a contact link that you can use. Just email/fill in the online form and ask them to check if it’s ok or not.

everyone knows eachother and everyone’s business.

Sounds like hell on Earth.

But hope you get to the bottom of it.

I would contact the police. When this happened outside our house, it turned out to be cloned number plates. The police only found this out when they contacted what looked like the “owner”

you can report it online. There's a BMW that's been (badly) parked outside my house for a couple of weeks with a few bricks through the windows. If you google your local police force they'll be a way to let them know. That said, I told mine about the car outside my house and other than a "thanks for telling us" not much has happened...

oh, your poor mum!