to report the Asda delivery driver

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We live on a one way street / roundabout with a playground in the centre.

A Sainsbury's van was blocking access to our car parking so we decided to wait until he had finished. No problem with that.

Then an Asda van decided to drive the WRONG WAY round the roundabout. He then started shouting at us to move and reverse. We refused. He started being abusive. We still refused. In the end he did give in and turned around.

About ten minutes later we've just seen him leave the square AGAIN going around the roundabout the wrong way, nearly hitting a cyclist in the process and mounting the kerb (which is at the exit to the playground).

We have a photo of him going around the roundabout the wrong way. Would be being unreasonable to complain to Asda about his driving?

Yes but that's my point! Where I live we would move out the way regardless of who was in the right 'green cross code' wise

As I said before I am obviously in the wrong thinking this it the right way of doing things. But I'm a country bumpkin!

Well OP it shows you're patient and reasonable because you were happy to wait for your parking space. I wouldn't have moved for this prat because he was going the wrong way. You did right to complain to Asda but I would consider speaking to the police. It is a safety issue.

But that wasn't my question.

I couldn't give a monkeys if I am being unreasonable for not moving. I'd do it every time as I refuse to be bullied by those people who don't respect the road and then take attitude with me over it. (Bare in mind I had no issue with the Sainsbury's van and was happy to wait).

As far as I am concerned Mr Asda delivery can be hours late if he's going to drive in the way he did. Because if he's hours late he has to explain why. And thats always going to come back to the fact of the way hes driving.

My question was whether I should just let it slide or report it.

Definitely report!! I find the Asda delivery men some of the rudest and dangerous drivers ( sorry to be stereotypical ).

I'd report to police as well using the non emergency line 101.

Is it obvious that it's a one way street or does it have the odd arrow painted on the ground? We have this in the middle of our town and people often get confused if they join from a side road that has two way traffic to find that they can only go left.
Perhaps he actually hasn't noticed? Perhaps he hasn't clocked it's a roundabout because it has a park in the middle. Sounds like every other estate I know where you just potter round the roads avoiding double parked cars, idiots that don't indicate and random bikes and cats.

DH has Nanny. Needed a bit of reassurance to do that though, which is why I posted in the first place.

There are one way arrow signs as you join the roundabout from each road onto it. I'd say that is fairly obvious.

I don't get why he was asking you to reverse - wasn't the Sainsbury's van in front of you (blocking your way). Where was he trying to get to ?

We were trying to turn into our drive. The sainsburys van was blocking access to it and was parked.

Right, so didn't he also need to ask the other van to move to gain access to the drive? How would your reversing helped? Or were you just waiting for your parking space to clear by blocking the road..

Actually I don't care. Night

Just to balance, I do believe op should report him, however we get asda online shopping, after also trying tescos and sainsburys and asda customer service is best. All the drivers we have ever had have been absolutely lovely. On the rare occasion I have had to complain about something, perhaps one of the items, customer services are very good too. Really easy to get through to on a free phone number. So do call, I'm sure they would want to hear about it.

Did you miss this bit Numbum?

'About ten minutes later we've just seen him leave the square AGAIN going around the roundabout the wrong way, nearly hitting a cyclist in the process and mounting the kerb (which is at the exit to the playground).'