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Published Date: 09 February 2010
The parents of a wheelchair-bound teenager have criticised the "inconsiderate" motorists who block their daughter's route into Chorley.
Laura May, 16, from Kirkstall Road, Chorley, was left paralysed after a back operation in 2005, the subject of an ongoing legal battle.

However, her parents Bill and Christine May say the challenges facing their daughter are being made worse by selfish motorists.

On Saturday she was forced to take a detour after her access from the Fleet Street car park to Whalley Street was blocked by cars.

Her parents hope the picture will shame drivers to think twice.

They said: "We had an appointment in the town centre on Saturday morning and we couldn't get on the Flat Iron car park because the sign was showing that it was full.

"We use Fleet Street car park quite a lot and it wasn't the first time that it was blocked. It is very frustrating, especially when you have an appointment as it takes time to have to turn back and walk around.

"There was no way that we could get through, it is so inconsiderate.

"The council should put bollards up to stop people parking there."

A fellow shopper, Coppull granddad Jim McGhee, was also spurred into taking pictures of the cars.

The semi-retired businessman said: "I have no axe to grind but do feel tremendously antagonised by these utterly inconsiderate people.

"We often take our 18-month-old grandson into town on Saturday and access would have been impossible had we had his buggy with us.

"In fact, I saw one young lady have to get her child out of a buggy and lift the empty pram over the bonnet of a Mercedes car that was parked there.

"My understanding of the situation is that it is illegal to block a public right of way."

Paul Riley, group manager at Lancashire Parking Services: "Lancashire Parking Services is working closely with the local police and PCSOs in Chorley who can issue warning notices to vehicles parked causing an obstruction to other road users.

"Police can issue fines to vehicles parked on pavements or in places that cause an obstruction to wheelchair users, prams and pedestrians. Concerned residents can bring issues like this to the attention of the community police teams or Lancashire Parking Services."

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  • Last Updated: 09 February 2010 10:51 AM
  • Source: Lancashire Evening Post CHO
  • Location: Preston
 
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I Love Tea,

09/02/2010 12:20:41
I don't have a wheelchair or a pram but it bugs me to death when cars block pavements leaving room for neither to get past.

There is a house on Brinlde Road and they park in front of their drive fully on the pavement so even people on foot have to go on the road to get past. Very, very selfish and unconsiderate - STOP IT!
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jonh,

09/02/2010 12:25:04
#1, see if they carry on doing it once they have had a wing mirror knocked off a few times!

On my street people frequently park on the road next to their own empty driveway - it mystyfies me as to why.

However, is the question in the story inconsiderate drivers or a lack of suitable parking in Chorley as with the rail station car park there.
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altharic,

09/02/2010 12:33:17
If you want to name and shame why are you not showing the selfish drivers registration numbers distorting them kind of makes printing the picture pointless.
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scamera dodger wilky,

09/02/2010 12:53:58
Complain all you want to Lancashire parking services, nothing will happen.

The junction with Bankside/A6 is dangerously obscured most days by pavement parkers who also block it for pram/wheelchair users etc. Parking services are regularly informed of the problem. Yet it continues.

The Zebra crossing there was only installed after a fatal accident. It will take yet another to get the law enforced.
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Kells95e,

preston 09/02/2010 13:05:30
#1 Try the "Mexican hat dance" on their car roof, amazin how eager the owners will be to find a proper parking spot !
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SIRAZ,

09/02/2010 13:31:26
We have this on Deepdale road, difficult to drop a Disabled passenger off near his house where we do not have double yellow lines. Where double yellow lines is the cars are always parked by Dominoes Drivers, Gutteridge Church and Selfish residents who park thier cars fro weeks and months never moves them.
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outdoorboy,

09/02/2010 16:16:50
i have seen the same. a car hire firm constantly parking cars and vans on the pavement and this is next door but one to a police station. its illegal to park cars on the pavement but have they done anything nope. perhaps they are waiting for a member of the public to make a complaint.
now thats what i call proactive policing.
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PrestonRealityCheck,

Preston 10/02/2010 02:00:05
Pavement parking is a major problem all over the county but no-one does anything about it. In Chorley I've even seen police vehicles parking illegally on the pavement.

For all its greenwash about supposedly promoting other forms of transport, councils in Lancashire are still firmly stuck in a mid-20th century timewarp attitude which can be summed as "if you're not in a car you don't count."
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jonh,

10/02/2010 07:31:33
Also a big problem in Walton Summit with DHL vans. I complained to the Lancashire Partnership for ROAD SAFETY in December as as of today have had neither acknowledgement or response. Which tells us a great deal.
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