What is the world coming to?

[swamp]

I just went to pick up my wife and child from a kids party but as a I pulled in to the side of the road another car started reversing towards me, not wanting to get hit I flashed and waved my hands.

The next thing I know a guy that I can only describe as a 'yardy' jumps out and starts hurling abuse in jafaken English and whacking my window, he was saying he lived there and I had no right to park outside (it was double yellows??), all this with my wife trying to put my crying one year old in the back seat.

I live in a quiet Somerset town BTW, god knows what it's like in a rough urban area?

This country is turning into a crime ridden tuliphole, last one out turn off the light.

Answer is to live somewhere where there aren't any 'yardies'.

[Paddy]

I live in a quiet Somerset town BTW, god knows what it's like in a rough urban area?

This country is turning into a crime ridden tuliphole, last one out turn off the light.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...tman/yokel.jpg

[PAH]

Answer is to live somewhere where there aren't any 'yardies'.

Out in the countryside, Good Life style. Would solve a lot of other things too, like energy/water/food bills, if you made it anywhere near self-sufficient.

There were plenty of cheap farms available a while ago, though with the rise in food prices due to demand elsewhere, cheap farms and land may be a thing of the past.

[PAH]

I've seen serious collisions happen because somebody chose to stop on double yellows when it was convenient for them, and another driver who, quite legitimately, didn't expect them to be there saw them too late.

It's perfectly legal to park on double yellows to load/unload, for up to 5 mins iirc. So in your example(s) the driver who collided was in the wrong.

I've actually had a parking ticket quashed for parking on the double yellows outside my parents, to load up some parcel I'd had delivered. So the law agrees with me. The traffic warden tried to pull a fast one by not waiting the full 5 mins, and fortunately I had witnesses.

If it really is that dangerous the yellow lines should be red lines!

[TheFaQQer]

It's perfectly legal to park on double yellows to load/unload, for up to 5 mins iirc. So in your example(s) the driver who collided was in the wrong.

That's not what the Highway Code says:

Double yellow lines indicate a prohibition of waiting at any time even if there are no upright signs. You MUST NOT wait or park, or stop to set down and pick up passengers, on school entrance markings (see 'Road markings') when upright signs indicate a prohibition of stopping.

[Law RTRA sects 5 & 8]

[AtW]

It's perfectly legal to park on double yellows to load/unload, for up to 5 mins iirc.

If you are the sole drive in balaklava waiting for your mates to come out from bank...

[blacjac]

That's not what the Highway Code says:

And TheFaQQer jumps in to defend NickFitz.

Who would have thought that?

[TheFaQQer]

And TheFaQQer jumps in to defend NickFitz.

Who would have thought that?

Actually, it's yet again to point out the bad advice that someone is giving here, having had a quick search on Google to find out.

Who would have thought that?

[lilelvis2000]

I think I once had someone come out of his house to ask me not to park in front. I just said "okay"..and the following day parked in the same spot. Never did see him again.

Don't think you can blame the entire country because one nut who thinks he owns the road infront of his house. Then again, Britain does seem to have a high porportion of such kind.

What really gets under my collar are the car park nuts who come up behind people walking with young kids and a trolly and assume you'll just get outta their way as if they are royalty.

There was the time my collegue and I was wallking towards his car in a car park and some nut quickly drove past and his wing mirror struck my collegue. The driver had the nerve to swear and cuss at my collegue!

And the time I was talking on my mobile to my client and some punk wanted to drive over the pavement where I was standing. He again began swearing and cussing.

What is it with UK drivers and pedestrians? Its like were rats to be run over at every opportunity.

Oh well....I've gone away from the thread again...

[Bagpuss]

Actually, it's yet again to point out the bad advice that someone is giving here, having had a quick search on Google to find out.

Who would have thought that?

Your pedantry is wrong here, I know the highway code pretty well and the caveat here is in bold

Originally Posted by Highway Code
Double yellow lines indicate a prohibition of waiting at any time even if there are no upright signs. You MUST NOT wait or park, or stop to set down and pick up passengers, on school entrance markings (see 'Road markings') when upright signs indicate a prohibition of stopping.

[Law RTRA sects 5 & 8]



You can stop on double yellows to load and unload depending on the kerb markings. PAH is correct only it's not parking as such although you can also pick up/drop passengers

http://www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/us...e+Yellow+Lines