Picture(s) of the day....

[mickthemaverick]

A Parking Attendant's (Traffic Warden's) dream!! How many highway code breaches are being committed here?

Own work

[CitroJim]

Three at the very least...

[mickthemaverick]

I make it four!!

[CitroJim]

I make it four!!

I didn't think owning a tediously boring white Ford is an offence... Or is it? If not then perhaps it should be

Seriously, I think I might see the fourth and if I'm right - which maybe I'm not - the second car in the picture is committing the same offence...

[mickthemaverick]

Seriously, I think I might see the fourth and if I'm right - which maybe I'm not - the second car in the picture is committing the same offence...

Indeed it is!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

POTD Brick of the Day

Always nice to find a new one, and these make a nice pair, or a nice gift for the Jones Brothers, and I do happen to know twin brothers of that name

nf original 12/04/2023
Jones Bros Pelaw
found at Lynemouth Beach

Neil

[bobins]

A Parking Attendant's (Traffic Warden's) dream!! How many highway code breaches are being committed here?

It doesn't appear to be an offence - as such - to park facing oncoming traffic, although the Highway Code does say 'Do Not' (as opposed 'Must Not').
It is, however, an offence to do so during the hours of darkness.
The basis of the relevant C&U1986 legislation says:
"Parking in darkness

101.—(1) Save as provided in paragraph (2) no person shall, except with the except with the permission of a police officer in a uniform, cause or permit any motor vehicle to stand on a road at any time between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise unless the near side of the vehicle is as close as may be to the edge of the carriageway. "

However, there are a number of sub-clauses.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/198 ... n/101/made

It isn't - as such - specifically an offence to park that close to a junction. It is however - wonderfully - an offence to.....

"Leaving vehicles in dangerous positions.

If a person in charge of a vehicle causes or permits the vehicle or a trailer drawn by it to remain at rest on a road in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to [F1involve a danger of injury] to other persons using the road, he is guilty of an offence. "
RTA1988
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/22

And....
"Obstruction

103. No person in charge of a motor vehicle or trailer shall cause or permit the vehicle to stand on a road so as to cause any unnecessary obstruction of the road. "
C&U1986
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/198 ... n/103/made

So when it comes to parking too close to a junction - it's a case of: 'Oh yes it is' 'Oh no it isn't'
As Homer Simpson says: 'That's for the courts to decide'

Bet you're glad you read all that. ........or possibly not

[myglaren]

They should just take him out and shoot him anyway, just to be on the safe side.

[CitroJim]

They should just take him out and shoot him anyway, just to be on the safe side.

Especially given his poor choice of car....

[NewcastleFalcon]

Wonder what this is

Wonder no more
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Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Wonder what this is



Wonder no more
viewtopic.php?p=752061#p752061

Neil

'orrible!

[CitroJim]

Willen Lake in the early morning sunshine

In the distance can be seen the MK version of the London Eye!

And the Peace Pagoda on the far shore...

[Gibbo2286]

Nearly had him!

[bobins]

That reminds me - I might have to defrost this and have it tonight

Pheasant pie

[CitroJim]

That was one very lucky pheasant!

Like me, they're not the sharpest tool in the box...

That reminds me - I might have to defrost this and have it tonight