How to remove a parked car

Aug 14, 2016 122 Replies

Agreed, especially if you are someone who just wants to get on with it.

We have something similar with a mini roundabout that was once just a side road off the high street.

Going South (straight across with the side road to your left) there is a 'Keep Left' bollard on a small pedestrian island that is right in the way of most car indicators. This means you have to assume

*everyone* will be turning right in front of you till the very last second (when you have nearly come to a halt) and you can see their indicators (previously masked by said bollard).

Cheers, T i m

They are and they aren't ....

"Leaving ?things? (including advertising boards) on the highway

According to the Highways Act 1980 ( Section 148 and Section 149) it is an offence if ?a person deposits any thing whatsoever on a highway to the interruption of any user of the highway without lawful authority or excuse or if the thing ?constitutes a nuisance? ? or constitutes a ?danger to users of the highway (including a danger caused by obstructing the view)? then they they can remove it without delay and recover the cost of removal from the owner. This can be used by councils (sometimes) to removed advertising boards."

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Cheers, T i m

It was obvious from the very beginning.

Only to someone who doesn't have a clue.

It has to be possible because you are allowed to drive to and from an MoT test appointment (within limits).

Agreed.

Interesting.

A mate received a 'put it on a SORN, get it insured or get a fine' letter from the DVLA for a motorbike he had laid up in his back garden (and hadn't ridden and had no intention of riding).

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Cheers, T i m

So if you keep something off road and don't tell them, they get upset. But if you tell them it's off road when it isn't, that's ok.

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I ignore those. They can walk round me.

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They started it. So surely it's like self defence?

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It's done deliberately to slow down traffic approaching the roundabout, because you can't see what is approaching from the right due to said signage/bushes/naked dancing ladies/whatever.

I would have thought that was obvious.

Idiotic interpretation.

They get upset because you have not paid tax, not because you decide to keep it off-road.

Typical. They only care about money, not safety. For example you get in more trouble for no tax than no MOT.

In article , James Wilkinson writes

A few pavements notably in London have been strengthened to take park cars, but mostly they haven't and the result is that they sink, slabs break and become a serious hazard for the elderly.

It may well have been done in the 1930s when car ownership was very limited.

Hardly ever happens, and they should look where they're going. Anyway if there's car parked there, they can't trip on them :-)

You have no idea what I do when angry.

And there are none here or anywhere I have seen because the cyclists pull them up and throw them in the bushes.

Cheers, T i m

They can most certainly cause problems such as preventing rainwater running away down the gutter as it should. That could be interpreted as causing an interruption.

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