Questionable parking questions

[Ste]

Hoping people can shed some light on a few questions.

Parking places you're not meant to be, either because of road markings or signs, or because it's somewhere you're just not meant to be like on a roundabout, opposite a junction or dropped kerb, or any of the other places you're not meant to park.

Now, other than the slight risk of parking tickets, wheel clamps or the vehicle being towed away, what happens with insurance if you're parking somewhere you shouldn't be and someone hits you? Am I right in saying you'd never get a penny from their insurance because you shouldn't have been there in the first place?

Purely hypothetical situation, just interested in what actually happens in such cases.

Thanks people

[Cigaro]

I thought that it doesn't matter whether you were meant to be there or not, they should still have seen you.

A similar example is if you are speeding, and someone pulls out in front of you. the fact that you were speeding means nothing, it's still their fault.

[LustyLew]

Parking offences were decriminalised within the London boroughs in the mid-90's. Most counties soon followed suit.

This meant the powers to enforce them was handed from dibble to the local council.

In theory, if you were parked on a double yellow line and someone hit the back of you, you should be OK. Bearing in mind you would need to have been unloading at the time.

unfortunately, insurance companies are a law unto themselves and can seem to pick and choose which laws they wish to uphold / ignore.
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[ms51ves3]

[Ste]

Hmmm I should probably come up with a better plan then.

Someone needs to teach people round here how to park though. You don't park around the edges of a roundabout, you also don't park opposite junctions on a narrow road. And you really don't park in the middle of a crossroads as some genius has done tonight.

[Icey]

Must be a Wiltshire thing - same happens around here too...
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