Night Parking Test Case Succeeds
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WALSALL Magistrates were unani mous last week in deciding that vehicles left all night in the street provided an unreasonable obstruction, and future offenders would be dealt with rnuch more severely.
In what was stated by the prosecution to he a test case, brought by the Chief Constable, Mr. K. M. Wherly, as a warning to other motorists, Mr. J. Heelry, of Bloxwich, was fined a nominal £2 after he had admitted leaving his lorry in the street outside his home.
Mr. Derek Wassail, appearing for the Chief Constable, said that there was a mistaken view among many motorists that they had a right to park vehicles outside their homes, provided they displayed the obligatory lights.
It was an offence to create an unreasonable obstruction to the free flow of traffic, and the prosecution claimed that this was being done when some parked vehicles occupied nearly one half of the width of streets on council house estates.
Mr. Wassail said that the police had recently conducted a survey in the Bloxwich area, and 70 vehicles, the majority commercial, were found to be parked outside drivers' homes at night.