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Parking peril
VISITING a friend in Oakridge Close last week, I noticed that there was not (as there has been on every previous occasion for many years) a car parked half on the pavement on the left-hand side, very close to the junction.
My friend explained that a few days earlier there had been a head-on collision between two cars, each trying carefully to inch past the parked one, and neither able to see the other.
As a result of a few well-chosen words the vehicle in question was now parked on the drive, much to our delight as it has always been a worry.
But when I left there was a car parked even closer to the junction on the other side.
On a further visit a different car was parked half on the pavement in the same old spot on the left and then later two cars were parked too close to the junction on the left as you enter the close; and a different one parked almost directly opposite them.
The result was an extremely dangerous and narrow slalom.
My understanding from my local Community Safety Officer is that, now that parking offences have been decriminalised (and rightly so), the criterion for any parking issue (above and beyond the Highway Code ones about parking on junctions) is that emergency vehicles must be able to get through on the road, and a double-buggy must be able to get through on the footpath.
Certainly in the situation I witnessed, neither was the case, because the footpath is heavily encroached upon by big bushes.
These are, I feel, serious road safety issues which need to be addressed.
Traffic spotter
Redditch
2:29pm Monday 28th April 2008
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