Car blocking crossing and hand signal telling me to go

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I'm walking to the Drs minding my own business with my baby in his bassinet.

A car wants to turn direction so drives into a side street to do it. The side street is a dead end and like all drivers they want to turn their car at the entrance to the road.

I stop a couple of metres from the crossing as the car starts to reverse into the pavement and goes up it a little bit. I'm unsure if the driver sees me.

The passenger winds down their window and hand signals to me to pass.... When they've blocked the dropped curb as well as are making my journey harder.... basically the car bonnet was facing the pram and the direction of the pavement. I don't see why a pedestrian should be inconvenienced by a car, especially with a bassinet.

Aibu for not following the orders/direction of the car driver?

I would've waited for the car to move too because the dropped kerbs make life crossing the road with my buggy a hell of a lot easier for me and smooth out the ride for my small person.

You were not unreasonable to ignore his signalling
You are unreasonable to make such a fuss about something that could have been sorted in 20 seconds
You are extremely unreasonable to swear at posters who disagree
And, as has already been mentioned, the word is 'kerb'

No, I don't. I think drivers should make their own judgements, not base their decisions on others' opinions.

Combo of things with me - they are clearly a crap driver with no regard for others safety, why the fuck would I want to endanger my child or myself by entering the road at this point.

The secondary issue is the blocking of the dropped curb - indeed a lack of consideration esp then to wave pedestrian past etc. You shouldn't have to do anything you don't want you were not unreasonable in my book at all.

Reminds me of the time I.was walking home with dd in her pram. Lorry reversed into driveway as I was approaching and stopped, parked completely over the pavement. Driver expected me to.walk round on the road. But it was on the top of a hill, the road bent round behind the lorry and cars have a tendency to speed round. I waited. Driver could easily have gone back 1m, or watched for traffic for me but did neither. I was unimpressed.

Blimey OP you’re being ridiculous. You have 2 options:-

1. stand firm and wait til the car completes his manoeuvre and you can cross at the dropped kerb.
2. go around the other side of the car (so you’re crossing between the car and the dead end), therefore not endangering yourself as you feel you did.

Both of these are fine. The car wasn’t blocking your path though, the driver was merely doing a manoeuvre in his car, he hadn’t parked at the dropped kerb and left the car there.

If this is all you have in life to moan about then think yourself lucky.

I find in such situations one can always very forcibly and sternly signal for the driver to get out of your way.

For a moment. Sometimes cars are in the road and we can't cross. Once he finished his turn the road (and dropped kerb) would have been clear.

Different situation, imo.
Your example clearly places you in danger and was completely unreasonable of the lorry driver. Plus he was parking so you would have had no idea how long he would be blocking the pavement for. Added to that, he was blocking a pavement which was clearly inappropriate.

In the OP’s example, he was not parking, he was carrying out a manoeuvre which would take less than a minute. He was not blocking the pavement, he was simply blocking the dropped kerbs. Plus it was a quiet side road with a dead end at one end and there’s no suggestion visibility was impeded.

OP could choose to cross or choose to wait. You were given no such choice by the dickish lorry driver.

Drivers who block drop kerbs are wankers

I couldn't wait. I was waiting, I had no issue waiting, but the car driver and passenger kept on telling me to pass

Maybe I should have added that. If the car driver just did the manoeuvre I wouldn't have cared, but it was a straight 'im going to block you, you have to go around me, no you can't wait, do as I say'

They were just turning the car around, hardly blocking it, they were moving. I think parking and blocking it is a problem but really turning your car around?

@RoseNy he wouldn't complete the turn despite me waiting there and telling him it's ok. He wouldn't move, I had to go around him.... So yes that's blocking the road

I think you'd get into an argument in an empty room!
Honestly, just wave the driver on and wait to cross

Don't actually understand why the driver didn't just get on with the manoeuvre and get the fuck out of the way tbh but I do think you've got unreasonably pissed off over a non event.

1. He wouldn't let me do

1. He had already mounted the curb and driven towards me, there was no way I was moving around him

1. He wouldn't move his car, I couldn't use the dropped curb, therefore he was blocking it. I told him to complete his turn, he wouldn't. He had his back tyres on the curb

Could he not complete his turn because you were standing right there in his path. I mean, it sounds like you were stubbornly refusing to move so he actually couldn't. Having read all of your posts on the thread, I could totally see that happening 🤷‍♀️

OK, so he was wrong to block the kerb, and he was wrong to expect you to walk into the road. And he was wrong not to complete his maneuver when you told him too.

He was a dick, but it's really a non-event in the grand scheme of things and doesn't warrant this much post-match analysis.

But he did see you because he signalled for you to walk. Let it go, you’re giving this to much energy.

It sounds like your position was making it harder for him to safely manoeuvre. He seemingly got himself stuck in an awkward position.

it may have not been ideal but I think in this case you contributed to making the whole thing more complicated than it needed to be.

"Bassinet". For the sole purpose of stylistical homogeneity, I'm replacing the "car" with a "motor vehicle" and OP with Miss Bouquet.

They weren't being "nice" they blocked my way and expected me to go around their car

So why didn't you?
(and it's "kerb" BTW).

Can you drive, OP?