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On Sunday, 14 August 2016 16:37:05 UTC+1, James Wilkinson
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If someone parks in front of your house, simply use a large
power
tool
such as a brush cutter, and start sending bits of twig flying
everywhere.
The car will get moved very quickly :-)

The road in front of your house is not yours.
Anyone can park there subject to yellow lines etc.

Does that include parking across your drive so you can't get
your
car
in
or
out? I know that you can't lay claim to the road *opposite* or
*either
side
of* your drive.

Well, you can't lay claim to the road, but it is a parking
offence
to leave a vehicle parked across a dropped kerb (introduced in
the 2004 Traffic Management Act)

That's daft, it should be "across a driveway". I've seen plenty
dropped
kerbs left where there is no longer a driveway, or driveways where
they
haven't bothered dropping the kerb.

The council can ticket it, or potentially get a vehicle removed.
Think for single driveways they tend not to enforce this (s it
may well be the householder or someone with permission.) Unless
the householder specifically complains about it.

(According to our local council when I spoke to them about it re
our driveway).

We quite often get people parking across our drive as we are near
the village shops and there is at times limited parking space.
Normally they are just stopping for a minute or two. Annoying if
you want to get out (though normally we aren't,) but not the end
of the world.

We did call the police one night when someone left their car
parked across it and as it happens my wife was on call (O&G
consultant, if she gets called in in the middle of the night,
it's because someone's birth is going pear shaped in a pretty
big way) . They managed after a while to locate the driver and
get them to move it.

If someone blocked the exit to my drive and I needed to get out
(especially as urgently as your wife), I'd reverse into the
offending
car
and shove it out of my way.

But its unlikely she drives a wreck of a car like
you do given that she needs something reliable.

Reversing a car slowly into the side of another won't damage it,
especially if it has a towbar.

But you wont be able to do that if you have backed your car into your
driveway.

I don't do stupid things like that

And wont work if you don't have a towbar.

The back of a car is still much stronger than the side.

Not necessarily. Modern plastic bumpers don't last long when you
use the car to shove another car out of the way sideways and the
lights are in fact much more expensive to replace than a new door.

I've never ad a problem when someone rams the back of me because they
weren't paying attention.

Sure but that's a separate issue to moving a car parked across your
driveway
that way.

It's slower so LESS damage to the back of the car.

Still much more damage than to the side of the car.

No, doors aren't as strong as the back. The first accident I ever had a woman reversed the same model of car into the side of me in a car park as I drove through it. Virtually no damage to hers, mine was declared a right off.

And it wouldn't work anyway. Even if you don't care about any damage
to your own car, the car shoved would end up in the middle of the road
and you would be legally liable for any damage that occurs to it.

It shouldn't have been illegally parked in the first place. It's now
illegally parked in a different place, so still the ****wit owner's fault.

Nope, legally your fault for shoving it there with your car.

He started it.

And only someone with a wreck would use the back of the car to do that
anyway.

Not if they knew it was stronger than the sides.

The back of your own car isnt if you don't have a towbar.

Backs of cars are not designed to compress like the rest.

But have lights and plastic bumpers that are very easily damaged.

Not at slow speeds. I have pushed cars out of my way before.

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