Driveway blocked

[N51BU]

I went to bed very late for me last night (00:15). I noticed a car had parked directly across our driveway so there was absolutely no way we would be able to get out in an emergency

In the last 18 mths we have had to take DD2 to hospital twice as she hit her head resulting in an awful bump in seconds and another time she was struggling to breathe

I checked the cameras and the car first parked there at 23:30 so it had been there forty five minutes before I noticed. I didn't recognise the car or driver and they walked off out of sight. I went to bed a little on edge. What are you meant to do in an emergency? I can only think call a taxi. I guess I could go knocking doors with lights on but that would be very time consuming

I despise (yep that strongly) people who are entitled to someone else's property or access rights just because they consider their business important.

However I do wonder, are there people who live on streets where on either side, every available strip of kerbside pavement is taken up with a car?

My friend lives on a road where her neighbour owns five cars but has driveway space for one. Another owns three.

In these kind of car shuffling situations, if all the streets nearby are narrow, unrestricted and chocka with cars, what gives?

We have a car parking problem in the UK. It doesn't and never should get solved by parking across a legally dropped kerb. But we have a problem nonetheless and it isn't getting solved.

In Japan you have to prove you have access to parking before owning a car.

I would absolutely LOVE that over here in the UK but would also be aware how much I'd be howled down by the types who all have multiple cars but nowhere to park them on their property.

@NaughtyNell

It's like arguing with someone who doesn't understand words!

So you didn't need to leave your driveway during the time the car was there & it was gone this morning?. Its a non event

Clymene

Its the sheer disregard for other people thats galls me the most. Don't think its too much to ask that I can get off my drive and get to work and for a bit of consideration.

There's that saying, if you woukdnt like it done to you, dint do it to others. Unfortunately its every man for themselves these days it seems

I once had some twat who used to park in a communal parking bay alongside my garden and then deliberately flick cigarette ends over the fence. He could just as easily have dropped them into the gutter. I was behind a bush one night when he drove up so would be unaware that I had seen him. After a couple of experiences of finding his nice new paintwork not quite so shiny the next morning he took to parking somewhere else.

[quote Steptoeshorse1965]@Clymene

Nowhere clearly in that link does it tell you that a car obstructing a drive, can be removed by towing away. For the biggest majority of the legislation to be invoked, you would need to go to court I would think.

I guarantee that if you have a drive, and someone blocked it, you rang say-the Police?? I doubt they would do anything but consider you a time waster. As for a breakdown wagon-do me a favour. Unless like in the US, you were in a "Tow away zone". The world does not work in the way I think a few of you might reckon it does. Last comment on the issue from me.[/quote]
Several people on this thread has had cars parked in front of their dropped kerb moved or ticketed are contacting the police.

Who should I believe? Their actual experiences, or what ‘you would think?’