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Thread Author: Bromptonaut Replies: 12
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 15:05 
 Reporting Near Misses - Bromptonaut
There are eight houses round this cul de sac. Six, including mine, have been in same occupancy since they were built in 1998. Kids who were pre school when wee move in are now at Uni. The folks diagonally opposite are grandparents * five or six.

While there's little socialising we all get on, take in each others parcels, chat in the street in summer etc.

When the grand kids of house opposite visit cars tend to be left in corner of cul de sac, opposite end of my drive. Over last few years Mrs B and I have both had near misses as we reverse into the drive. We were of course too reserved to report them to neighbour and look like moaners.

Inevitably of course one of us eventually got too near and Mrs B's wing mirror, and the merest scrape of a door damaged their youngest daughter's Qashqai.

All sorted amicably at cost of excess and lost NCB. We've had one car since Thursday while they straighten the (new) Berlingo's door.

Wish we'd mentioned the near misses though. They've not parked there since!!
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Mon 10 Feb 14 at 15:08
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 15:34 
 Reporting Near Misses - R.P.
Reverse in drive out. Lot safer. (I don't practice what I preach though)
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 15:53 
 Reporting Near Misses - Bromptonaut
>> Reverse in drive out. Lot safer. (I don't practice what I preach though)

That's what we do. Normally park 2 cars side by side but can get four on provided two are Clio/205 size or smaller. On the occasion of the scrape we'd a third car, daughter's b/f's Pug 107, parked behind mine which reduced the scope for cutting across the end of our drive. Mrs B ran too wide the other way.
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 15:47 
 Reporting Near Misses - Fenlander
What a close match for the cul-de-sac we moved into 2yrs ago after leaving the fens.

10 houses built around 1987 with three families who have been in the full 26yrs, most of the rest been here over fifteen years... just us and a new couple from a year ago to upset the status quo. Seem to have learned the residents committee rules and fitted in quite well so far though :-)

>>>While there's little socialising we all get on, take in each others parcels, chat in the street in summer etc.

Ditto and exactly what we seek.

Also the only time we have parking issues is if there is a family do or party at one of the houses when the cu-de-sac hammerhead is full and we lose that turning space as we reverse off the drive. On dark rainy nights it would be all too easy to reverse into one of the visiting cars... but so far avoided it.

Having said that we don't mind legit visitors but now and again have to chase off folks from adj roads with less parking who try and leave their cars in our turning hammerhead.

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New Mon 10 Feb 14 19:21 
 Reporting Near Misses - Fursty Ferret
Had a snotty note left on my car for the sin of temporarily parking on the street in front of someone's house, blocking their view of... the house opposite.

Red rag to a bull, really, and took every opportunity I could find to park there after that. This hacked the owner off so much she started parking her own car there to stop me. Shortly after that the local bin lorry took the corner a little too quickly and used her car as a crumple zone. I didn't laugh. Much.

Karma... it means I can do nasty things to people all day long and assume they deserve it.
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 20:02 
 Reporting Near Misses - R.P.
Hahaha...I park my truck in an NHS yard by agreement. Got back one evening and "my" slot was taken and the rest of the car park was busy. So I parked alongside a low wall out of everyone's way. When I went to collect it the next day, I was barracked by an office dweller (complete with compulsory ID card on a neck thing). She was moaning that I had blocked her view....I did ask her politely what of ? A 8 foot brick wall and cars ? Sour faced woman. No sense of humour....reported me to her line manager apparently - so parked it there the next day despite my slot being free....still waiting to hear something from her line manager...
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 20:27 
 Reporting Near Misses - MD
What.......in Old English, is a ruddy Line Manager. Come on now. Facts, not modern sheet.
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 20:08 
 Reporting Near Misses - Mikhail Ribbendik
And they let people with your sort of mentality loose on passenger aircraft?
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 21:02 
 Reporting Near Misses - Fursty Ferret
>> And they let people with your sort of mentality loose on passenger aircraft?
>>

Especially with my sort of mentality.
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 20:08 
 Reporting Near Misses - Bromptonaut
>> Having said that we don't mind legit visitors but now and again have to chase
>> off folks from adj roads with less parking who try and leave their cars in
>> our turning hammerhead.

Much the same here. Football, rugby and cricket grounds are adjacent. Parking copes except for three times a year the local club hosts junior rugby sevens for half the county. I've seen off the odd parent who thinks it's OK to dump their car just off corner of my drive. Ditto number 17's well off sis/bro in law who do same thing with their £70k+ Merc /BMW. Mrs No 17 keeps quiet but her hubby's quite happy to see me take an assertive line....
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 20:28 
 Reporting Near Misses - MD
Mrs No 17 keeps quiet but her hubby's
>> quite happy to see me take an assertive line....
>>
Brake fluid????
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 22:54 
 Reporting Near Misses - Ted

Not too bad here...wideish through road used as a rat run....speshly when Man United are at home. Hundreds of Ks worth pass the house then in an hour ! I sometimes put a chicane out to cut the speeds down...my car opposite swm's.

When next door moved in I loaned him my van to help as he had no wheels. He only went and reversed it out into a car parked opposite smashing one of the very rare rear light lenses. Had to order a new one from France eventually. The only trouble was that the car he reversed into was also mine ! Thankfully it was just a bangernemonics Escort knockabout car.

The sandal wearing, yogurt knitting acupuncturist opposite has given her customers 'permission' to park opposite my gate which is annoying when reversing out but they all seem to favour the pavement now...after I mentioned that one might get backed into one day by chummy next door in his Freeloader.

HO
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New Mon 10 Feb 14 23:27 
 Reporting Near Misses - RattleandSmoke
Always amazes me that people park on the pavement on your road, you can almost park two double decker buses side by side and still have room for a fire engine to get past!. My road is the same, thankfully nobody parks on the pavement but you always get one idiot trying it.

I am always extra careful when reversing now after my accident last year when I scraped that car.
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