To ask how to best handle this car blocking my drive?

[Parkingdrama00]

I live near to a football stadium and the team are currently playing. Somebody has parked right across my drive and blocked me in. I assume they have gone the match.

You need a residents pass to park round here and it doesn't look like they have one. Looks like I'm trapped until they come back.

What's best to do? Can I report them to the council? Leave a note? Confront them upon their return. Or is all of that pointless?

I wanted to go to the supermarket which will likely be closed by the time they're back.

@sparepantsandtoothbrush we would, just to cheer on Wolves 😂

I’m really invested, then realised my DH is at the match.

If he comes home in a cab minus his car I’ll put his roast dinner in the bin on your behalf OP!!

I keep my eye on a lot of scores, as they affect the table, so they might well.

Could be five of them, they'd only have to pay £4-5 each for the car park .
expensive lesson learned there !

I think poster meant hope the tow truck driver is an Everton fan not the rubbish parker.

Very exciting. I hope the police come before the match ends.

So glad the police are going to tow it, some people are absolute arseholes with no shame!!

@Parkingdrama00 well done.
Can I ask what you said to them to get them to do it

I hope they're quick. There was a woman recently who lived across from my house and someone had parked across her "drive"...... and I say drive as she had just knocked down her wall (with permission from Landlord) and parked on her front yard. She needed to get out to meet her late mum's funeral directors and found her car blocked in despite it being an empty street. It was someone associated with someone she had fallen out with. He thought he was being smart because the car was parked on an illegal driveway. Nope. In her distress, she called the police and the police didn't give an F about the legality of the driveway, only that a car was being blocked from access to the public highway, clearly for no reason (empty street). It was towed within an hour and cost her apparent nemesis a fortune in fees.

6 minutes of stoppage time. Hurry up tow truck!!!

Did they tow it in time

Glad you got it sorted OP. I think people struggle to understand the rules around this. It’s an offence to block access to a public highway, so if your car is parked on your driveway and someone blocks access by parking across it they are committing an offence. What a lot of people don’t seem to grasp is that even if there is no car parked on the driveway, it’s also an offence to block the entrance if there is a dropped kerb. Oddly, it’s not an offence to park close to a dropped kerb even if it restricts access, but doesn’t completely block it. I’m in Wirral and our council will send a tow truck in these circumstances.

I’m disabled and not being able to access my driveway causes problems. I live close to a school and school run times are a nightmare. After several run ins with parents I had a plate printed and attached to my gatepost. It shows the disabled wheelchair sign on a blue background, states that access is required at all times, and that blocking it will result in the vehicle being towed. So far it seems to be doing the job. I believe you can now get similar from Amazon.

The joke was not about watching the match, but being very willing to tow the car and inconvenience a Liverpool supporter.

6 minutes, plus getting out the stadium, then walking to their car - I’m on tenterhooks 😂

I'm hoping they tow it just as the driver arrives so they can watch it go past them 🤣

Let's hope they go for a post-match pint 😁

Shamelessly from blowing this thread for the update!

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Make sure you take a picture of it being towed!

I can’t believe people are so selfish to do this! Well done 🙌

I’m amazed that the police have actually arranged to get it towed.
Photo of towtruck needed to verify OP 😁

Probability would say most likely to be a Liverpool fan, just on the balance of numbers of home and away fans.

Ah ok. That makes more sense 😂

And to the poster who says they watch scores, so do I but I wouldn't go and watch a rival team if we weren't playing them!

The offence here is blocking access to the highway. Had it been the other way around and someone was blocking her out of her ‘driveway’ the police wouldn’t have been interested as there was no dropped kerb.

This would absolutely fill me with rage! The audacity of some people is unreal!
What happens if you have a genuine emergency and need to use your car urgently? I needed to rush my 6mth old baby to hospital on Saturday night. A category 1 ambulance (as in heart attacks, stopped breathing etc) was around a 6hr wait in my district so I had no choice but to jump in the car and get my baby there myself!