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White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - Heather (28th Sep 2011 - 08:57:36) Anyone else seen the old lady sitting in her car, parked on the crossing just before the turning for Bohunt?? Looks as though she's picking someone up who lives there BUT she is parked in the crossing creating a dangerous situation for both road users & children trying to cross the road!! To navigate around her you have to indicate & swerve onto opposite side of the road on the crossing. There will be an accident !! This morning the traffic was queuing back to the Avenue behind her.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - Anne (28th Sep 2011 - 09:41:30) Have you not considered going to speak to her yourself ? I guess it is quite hard to get out of a car in traffic to ask someone to move on. It would be better to record the car number and report it to the police, including date and time (a photo would be brilliant). The police will then write to the registered keeper. Alternatively, it would be better if someone who knows her just reminds her about the highway code.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - dawn hoskins (28th Sep 2011 - 12:54:35) I have just reported using '101' Incident number 463 please call them by dialing 101 at the actual time that it is happening - and an officer will attend. If anyone can get a registration number of the car - please call 101 quoting the incident number.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - Stephen (28th Sep 2011 - 18:03:33) This White Corsa is not obstructing the crossing, and if the people complaining were not so impatient they would not find it a problem. The crossing itself has been blocked on more than one occassion because of impatient drivers overtaking the queue to turn right into Bohunt School. The queue is always there on a school day regardless of a White Corsa or any other car, van, truck or whatever being parked for a few minutes picking somebody up. As to it being there on most days, wrong again. The Corsa is there twice a month at 8.30am on a school day and once a month on Saturday. The usual time for it being there is 9.30am and sometimes 10am. Return times are also very rarely during Schools out. As most times returning is planed for after schools out.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - Heather (28th Sep 2011 - 20:35:51) Funny then how this morning traffic in front of said car was free flowing. Hope she's there tomorrow because I'll provide the photographic evidence. I'm sure I'm not the only one witness to this.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - helen (29th Sep 2011 - 01:18:03) There is still not any excuse to be parked within the vicinity of the crossing, there are road markings and as such there is a danger whatever time of day, It obstructs the view of cars so drivers cannot see who may be crossing. taken from page 81 of the highway code--rule 240--you must not stop or park on a pedestrian crossing,n including the markedby thezigzag lines.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - dawn (29th Sep 2011 - 12:39:49) Dear Stephen, The car was there this morning and it was causing difficulties for children trying to cross over the road to school. Children using the crossing have to look to see if anyone is going to be overtaking the parked car, which results in the overtaking car driving on the wrong side of the road whilst driving over the crossing. Very dangerous and totally unnaceptable give the amount of empty spaces in Bohunt carpark at this time [8:30] in the morning, or indeed the layby just a few yards down the road.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - Stephen (29th Sep 2011 - 14:41:59) Dear Dawn. The car was only there this morning for approx 2 minutes while collecting a person from the house. The only obstruction for the boy crossing the road in front of said car was the van the other side of the crossing owing to the tailback from the village that is and has been there every morning since the school was built. Bye the way. This crossing is many times blocked by people with little patience overtaking the queue to pull into Bohunt School. I also have spoken to the police about this issue. Your time would be better spent thinking about how to remove these ridiculous pinch points on this part of the road and the pinch points further down. These cause more danger to many people who decide to speed up to go through them instead of slowing down. This again relates to impatience and not caring at all for the so called speed limit. I have just seen a lorry go through these points at around 40mph in the middle of the road as is usually the case and a car was pulling out of Bohunt School. In days gone by we used to use common sense and vigilance while crossing a road anywhere. Unfortunately the world seems not to have this ability anymore and is always in to much of a hurry.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - Dave (29th Sep 2011 - 17:59:08) Stephen Two minutes, two hours or two days - an offence is an offence. What other drivers do in no defence for the lady in the Corsa.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - Richard (29th Sep 2011 - 20:15:45) Perhaps our friendly neighbourhood policeman could have a quiet word in the drivers ear. At least it would look like they are concerned about the village, and it would be a bit of a novelty seeing a policeman walking his beat in the village...!

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - helen (30th Sep 2011 - 00:45:18) Perhaps Stepehen as you seem to know this lady, perhaps you can ask to park a bit further from the crossing before the police ask her to! It is most unlikely that pinch points will be removed, in some cases they do slow traffic down,as the illusion is given that the road narrows.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - Stephen (30th Sep 2011 - 15:51:54) Dear Dave. It is not an offence as you seem to think it is to park on the road where there are no lines sugesting that parking is an offence. As I stated earlier, I also have reported the situation to the police. If you go to Haslemere you will see there are zig-zag lines in front of the estate agents down to the traffic lights. From the end of the zig-zag lines the parking starts and is legal. Also, regarding seeing down the road from the crossing past a little corsa is very easy. It is also rather amusing that the person who said on the 28th the traffic was flowing freely on that morning. The corsa was there picking up another person at 8.30am. No hold up then! Why is it? That you feel fit to condem a little car that is easy to see past unless you close your eyes,and is only there legally for a few minutes at a time, while only a few months ago the 40 foot lorry delivering metal to a business next to the house stoped delivering and had been one of many lorries delivering there for a very long time. They were sometimes on the footpath and on the road blocking one lane. Mothers with pushchairs sometimes had to go out onto the road to get past. They did without incident because they looked. If you and the others find it so difficult, my sugestion is that you go up Headly Rd and not Longmoor Road. No, of course you don\'t because the queue is as bad or worse than Longmoor Road. And before anymore is said about this subject, you might like to think of adult cyclists who ride up the footpath even when the road is empty of traffic. Many times in the village and Longmoor Road have people been hit and nearly hit by these people cycling illegally with a sugested £30 fine as the police told me a few years ago for this offence.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - Dave (30th Sep 2011 - 17:01:00) Stephen. The offence is one of obstuction. The size of the vehicle has no bearing on the matter. Again I should point out that the actions of others are no excuse for those of the Corsa driver.

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - David McGrath (30th Sep 2011 - 20:29:40) i think we have all got the message about the white car! Either confront the driver and look big, or give it a rest and post something new and interesting!

Re: White Corsa Obstructing Bohunt crossing most mornings! - Stephen (1st Oct 2011 - 13:22:07) Dear David McGrath You read my mind. Thank You.

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