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Cars keep hitting garden wall

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Aswellaslocal · 11/07/2020 12:13

Has anyone got any bright ideas for stopping cars hitting our garden wall? It’s about waist height so I think I need to put something in front of it that cars will hit first. But I don’t want it to be too ugly! The wheelie bin would work but just not nice to look at.

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outdooryone · 05/09/2025 12:57

And to add - I have been living in a short cul-de-sac for a decade or so. It is very clear it is a very short 't-shaped' cul-de-sac with multiple residents cars parked as soon as you turn in.
The entrance is wide and onto a very quiet street - the logical thing as soon as you look in would be to do a 3-point turn there.
Noooo, almost everyone drives in, right to the back, then has to do a 3-point turn between parked cars, low walls and hedges, street lamp and dodgy 1970's road layout which is not quite big enough for many modern cars...so many bumps of neighbours cars, hedges etc over the year.

I just keep reminding myself that a driving license is not an IQ test and that 50% of drivers are less than average intelligence....

PigletJohn · 07/09/2025 18:05

I get the impression that because it is waist height, drivers are not seeing it.

A hedge in front of it would give them the chance to scratch their cars before hitting the wall.

Until you can grow some taller plants, I think you need something else. Posts with hanging baskets on, perhaps?

If the problem is poor visibility when it's dark, you could put little solar lights on them. Round Christmas, fairy lights. Near election time, campaign posters?

I have some stepover hedges at the front of the house, and find it difficult to park at an ideal distance, in the dark.

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