Car side mirrors keep getting pushed in ?

On a regular basis I wake up to find that several cars in a row along my street including my car have had their side car mirrors pushed in. Today I found some major scratching on the plastic of my side mirror

Does this happen to anyone else ? Is there anything I can do about it?

Also a couple weeks ago there was like chalk powder on the side doors of a few of our cars that got their mirrors pushed in..

I feel disrespected

Happens all the time to me, sometimes not just pushed in but broken off. In my case it is the price of living on a main road which is a walking route back from the pub. If your side mirrors fold in I suggest you get in the habit of folding them each time you park. Otherwise, there isn't much you can do I am afraid.

It's a small street, but there are two local pubs on either end of the street... so that's probably what's happening.

I guess they won't be touching the mirrors if they're already pushed in.. I'll start getting into that habit of doing that, thanks.

Could it be a delivery van?

It's on the sidewalk side of my car where it's happening. But I could see how a van might do that on our street being so tight.

Quite often if the streets are narrow people park with two wheels up on the sidewalk; this is quite widespread, is illegal and can get you a ticket, as well as being bad for the kerb edges and your tires. It is especially annoying if you are someone who has to walk along the sidewalk, particularly on days when wheelie bins are out. I guess these people only ever drive along the street and probably think pedestrians are losers anyhow. It can be a problem for folks who are visually impaired, like me. I am practically blind in my right eye and if I am walking along such a street I sometimes hurt my arm or shoulder against side mirrors. If it happens to shift them (or break them, it happens) I don't give a damn about the damage. I just walk on.

A particularly bad example



It means anyone with a pushchair or pram or in a wheelchair has to go in the road, (on a bend!) to get around the car.

There is a blog in Bristol where people post photos of pavement parking which they have reported to the police.

I quote:

"I have seen a woman with a pram bash the wing mirror of a car and berate the driver sitting in the car when she couldn't get past. "

That sounds like it's very frustrating for you. Our street is good about keeping cars off of the sidewalks but not so good about removing the rubbish bins after the trash has been picked up.

It's a small street, but there are two local pubs on either end of the street... so that's probably what's happening.

I guess they won't be touching the mirrors if they're already pushed in.. I'll start getting into that habit of doing that, thanks.

Won't promise that they wont touch them if they are already pushed in- sometimes it is just people being a pain...but I do find they are less likely to do it if they are pushed in.

Blue ribbon effort..



but then again...

Our street is [...] not so good about removing the rubbish bins after the trash has been picked up.

Round our way the council puts warning stickers on bins that are persistently left out, saying that offenders could face a fine, and I see that a guy in Manchester was fined £350, and ordered to pay £200 costs and a £15 victim surcharge, after being warned on 8 occasions. No doubt that will inspire the Daily Mail brigade to huff and puff, but I think it served him right.

Oh boy, here goes my visa...if I (in a power chair) come up against these and it is bad weather, or I'll be late, or my life is endangered from it...scrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaape....I'll try to arrange air out of tyres and/or nasty big adhesive sticker on windscreen too. I need to be sure to know what disabled parking badges allow and look like as I know some of us need to park close but smack in the middle of pavement?

It's not illegal, except in London.

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You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860

It's not illegal, except in London.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860

In London any pavement parking is illegal, whether or not it causes an obstruction. Outside London the position varies. Some councils have bye-laws forbidding it. It is illegal everywhere to cause an unnecessary obstruction. Unnecessary has been held to include 'unreasonable'. You must therefore not park on the pavement if it obstructs the lawful use of it by pedestrians, who may be acccompanied by wheelchairs etc.

Under the Highways Act 1980 s137, if a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding £50.

on the street across from mine (not in London) there are parking "brackets" [like this] to denote car spaces and they are painted so that cars must park half on the narrow street and the pavement!