car parking

[kevcoates]

if i hit a car parked half on kerb half off who is to blame

[helsbels666]

you hit it with what? Can you explain a bit more please

[twiglet321]

Sorry not an answer, but i've always wondered the same thing but with double yellow lines.

[chazza]

If you hit it then you are to blame

[helsbels666]

Wasnt it easier to miss it if only half of it was on the road?? Or were you on the curb?!

[astondog]

It does'nt matter if the other car is illegally parked or on a private car-park, you are to blame, sorry to have to say that.

[Hammer]

A stationary vehicle cannot be to be blame for being hit, no matter how it is parked. If there wasn't enough room to drive round it, you shouldn't have tried. Sorry.

[ianess]

Totally agree with the other replies. No matter what it is YOU hit it, therefore you are to blame.

[spaced]

i hope you did the honest thing and left your details

[qapmoc]

Did the parked vehicle suddenly jump out in front of your car? - NO - then its your fault.

[Ward-Minter]

astondog, if you hit somebody in a "private" xar park it would not be a road nor a highway under the Road Traffic Act. Therefore nobody will be blamed under law as it will not be classed as an accident.

Public carparks are different.

[Grunty]

Ward-Minter - you are right about the criminal side, but the civil liability would still apply on a private car park.

kevcoates - What would the answer have been if it was a child standing on the kerb?

As irritating as pavement parkers are, we have a responsibility to see them and avoid them.

[stanleyman]

Parking on the highway which includes the path is an obstruction to the free passage of traffic and pedestrians. Hitting them, to my mind, is the best way of dealing with them. Go for it!

[mitch1340]

If you hit the illegaly parked car with your umbrella while walking your dog, I believe it is not your fault.

If you hit the car with another car while you were trying to squeeze between the illegally parked car and the building on the other side, you are both at fault.

If you were backing up to park at the curb while hitting the illegally parked car, I do not believe you were at fault since your perception of distance to the curb and to the back bumper might have been thrown off because of it.

If you hit it with a football, you might be at fault after all.

[Electrochem]

If you have a car Stanleyman, perhaps you would kindly post the details of it on here (colour, make, model and registration mark etc) so that I and probably others on here can look out for it.

What a silly posting from you, when you generally give good advice.

[astondog]

Ward-minter, Grunty answered for me re car parks, whereever you are whatever you do under coomon law you have "a duty of care" so whether your in a car or not and cause an accident you are liable.

[helsbels666]

but still no news from kevcoates...come on kev reply!

[stanleyman]

You shouldn't take life too seriously Electrochem, this does appear to be a hypothical question after all. Where is your sense of humour? You don't need my vehicle details, as a considerate person my vehicle never ever obstructs the highway but as it is bigger than most, you would probably come off worse.

Actually this does have a serious side because when fire engines are obstructed they often push cars out of the way and cause quite a bit of damage, something people should think about when parking. I've also heard of police officers deliberatly directing lorries into cars when they are causing an obstruction to get them moving past. So my answer is not as silly as it seems!

[Ward-Minter]

astondog, unfortunately morality does not come into law. That is the whole philosophy of "jurisprudence".

[bigdaddycain]

how long has it been illegal to park half on half off a kerb? if you parked fully on the road around here the road would be virtually blocked! (warrington, the unnoficial centre of all things anti motorist)