Perpendicular parking

[annie]

A smart car owner has won a year-long battle over a £50 parking ticket given because she parked at a right angle to the kerb. But what is the law, asks Chris Stokel-Walker.

Vanessa Price has managed to get a £50 parking fine levied against her by Gloucestershire County Council overturned by an adjudicator, who said she did not break any road regulations by parking her Smart car at 90 degrees to the kerb.

Price was given the ticket because the front of her car peeked out from the parking bay lines in Stroud, Gloucestershire. It was overturned because the rule that drivers must park within markings does not apply in limited waiting spaces on highways.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazin ... r-30488190

[maureenho]

They were talking about that on radio 2 at lunchtime

[wendy]

it looks to me as if the driver had room to reverse a little more.