We get people parking on, not across, on our driveway all the time (Doctor’s surgery across road, hairdresser on corner). Call the cops, they will phone the owner and tell them to move it or face a fine. We once had a lady parked for 3.5 hours on the driveway while she had her hair and makeup done around the corner. Our car was trapped in so the Domestic Antipodean had to use a cab. The cops rang her, she didn’t reply, they stuck a mahoosive fine on her car. She wasn’t too happy. My neighbour and I waved her a cheery farewell.
I posted pictures of the damage another casual parker did to our front lawn/nature strip on here a couple of years back.
Drove from Northumberland to S Oxon today, on motorways/dual carriageways mostly. Spent much of the time wondering whether anyone else on the road (anyone at all, pretty much) remembers #137 and #138 here https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/multi-lane-carriageways.html.
I suppose their explanation for having spent the last 25 minutes in the outside lane without overtaking anything whatsoever is that when you’re as pigshit-thick/inconsiderate as they are nothing they do on the road could realistically be described as ‘safe’. So changing lanes is never ‘safe for them to do’.
Curiously 4-lane roads are substantially worse than 3-lane ones in this regard.
Sadly the inside lane of the A1M and the M1 was mostly full of trucks today (Monday) but I spent the bulk of my time in lane 2, overtaking them, and for long stretches I was slowly edging my way ahead of the chocker lane 3. I couldn’t help smiling.
When the road is busy the pent-up impatience in the outside lane can, despite the occupants’ genuine wish to get a move on, make it very vulnerable to braking waves (no pun intended). These are where the slightest dab of one driver’s foot on the brakes propagates back down the traffic stream, getting increasingly dramatic as it goes. Drivers in the outside lane can be oscillating between 80 and stationary while the ones in lane 2 can be getting ahead of them at a tedious but steady 45-50.
Or the local authority. Ours takes a dim view of driveway/dropped kerb obstruction and will send a parking attendant to ticket the car.
It happens here very frequently. I have also tried super-gluing a very impolite notice to their windscreen (right in the driver’s field of vision, facing inwards)
Just don’t permanently damage the car, or you could be arrested.
As an update, I managed to get the car out this morning at 6am, just. It was extremely tight. Just as I pulled out a lady in a dressing gown was walking briskly down the street and unlocked the car as I slowly drove off and gave her a stare.
You could try talking to her. In our last house we had trouble with neighbours whose teenage son worked on building sites and who was picked up each morning before dawn by someone who honked his horn on arrival. It woke us up. I knocked on their door, explained my problem and asked what they thought I should do. Because I wasn’t going to put up with being woken up. The easiest thing would be to call the police. But they were my neighbours, and we had to carry on living opposite one another, and it would be best by far if we could solve the problem between us. As it was, the father of the house was very reasonable about it and the lad was just stuck with his troublesome lift. He’d asked him to keep quiet but it wasn’t working. We agreed he would tell the guy that if the noise continued then a morning would come when the police would be waiting for him. And they would spoil his whole day. The honking stopped.
