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Well done Mikey! 👍
Given how close that is to the railway crossing the entire section of road should (IMHO) be double red lines. The last thing needed is congestion near a railway crossing and a vehicle getting stuck. While I'm sorting the world out 🙂 double red lines are pretty garish, it's shame they don't just put the double red restrictions on double yellow lines- far more pleasing to the eye. But fundamentally that bit of road should never be used for loading / unloading due to risk of causing significant congestion and a danger on the crossing. If that means horrible double reds, so be it.
Just wait till one of the Met get hurt in some way from bad driving or parking. I bet then it doesn't just get a love letter.
Do you ever report pavement parking? Or it is a waste of time?
ethix supporter, eh? you fly fpv as well?
Always tricky ones with big delivery trucks. Sometimes not their fault, but the council needs to think about road layouts to aid businesses to operate efficiently without blocking the roads too much. Perhaps a delivery bay etc, which no doubt every other car will start parking in 😂😂.
Get a life oh my god have you ever drove a HGV and understood the risks and demands who’s to say he isn’t broken down? Christ all mighty your something else you. 🤦♂️
Lots of drivers ignoring the Keep Clear marking …
What about the car parked on the pavement. See all the time.
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The car parked on the pavement needs a ticket too.
I was in a multi-story car park this morning and a thoughtful driver let me cross the road in front of her. Well I thought so but she was using a phone hand held up to her ear. I did the Mikey universal hand gesture for put it away and she did but I got one of those looks. Lucky for her I want't filming. Probably picked it up again the moment she was out of sight. How anyone can manoeuvre around that tight car park with one hand on a phone beats me, it takes 100% of my concentration just to avoid hitting the walls and barriers.
I live around the corner. Doing that where the traffic already gets shockingly bad is so infuriating
Excellent work – thanks for keeping us safe 👍👮👩✈️🚔🐕🚒🚑🛥️🚁🏍️👊
ZIG-ZAG parking is a nuisance. Well done Mikey 👍
I also think that you and the car in front of you were stopped in a keep clear section.
Dropping anchor wherever they wanted🤦♂️
Not ideally parked but we don't know what potential obstructions were there prior to this. We saw a car blocking the pavement on this footage. Perhaps that is why the HGV was further along the road.
Hi Mikey,
Ridiculous parking. Driver awareness course at least.
Shame on them.
I know that railway crossing very well. Any traffic delay there can have serious repercussions at the crossing barriers.
If the truck driver is capable of doing out the inside of his cab with Granny's frilly curtains, he is capable of doing no end of silly things.😂
A warning letter is the right result here. And I think that I would have been more generously disposed towards the driver, on the balance of probabilities, by not reporting it.
Obviously the HGV parked on the zig zags represents a hazard, and a specific breach of the Highway Code and related legislation. However, the information available suggests a reasonably high probability that the driver had arrived at the delivery destination and had stopped there to establish the best means to complete the delivery. It also seems likely that stopping there was the ‘least worst’ option available. Reversing into the space available in front of the parked Toyota would have represented a greater hazard than stopping on the zig-zags, in my view. Similarly, driving around the block and/or finding somewhere to turn around could have created greater hazards. The yard containing other parked vehicles before the crossing would need to be reversed into – I would expect an unaccompanied driver to look for assistance before doing that.
As well as its probable contribution to the HGVs position, the Toyota PHV parked on the pavement with its door open is the greater objective hazard, as demonstrated by the pedestrian forced into the road.