Why Is It A Crime To Park Facing The Wrong Way?

Well, I accept those explanations for this by-law, as it states on the ticket of city of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. But then is it the law makers and / or executors’ responsibility to inform citizens there is such a minute by-law lurking somewhere? Has anyone received a thorough traffic rules when you get your driver’s lessons or license? Or at least refer to to a website, or even urge you to go to a local library to read all those rules time by time? Does a local library even hold this so-closely-relate-to-our-daily-life-and-safety law or by-law? If not, how would we access these law? I suggest a one-time warning.

Your reasoning is insufferably big brother-esque. Parking facing the wrong isn’t proof of jack shit, except that you originally parked on the other side and had to move over due to a no parking sign. Dumb ordinance that should be universally defied.

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here is my question I live in suburbs and know my neighbors etc… neighbors 16 yr old son gets his new truck parks on the street. Only been 2 weeks with him parking their always facing wrong way. If I start backing up leaving my driveway I will have to do a 3 point stop and turn to avoid hitting his truck he is directly in front of my driveway and I have to go over my own yard and curb to get out of my own driveway. I’m not a nasty neighbor so I don’t really say anything but today I’m reversing and I hit his truck backing up. Now I’m getting insurance info for parents and their saying not to make a claim because they don’t want their insurance to go up. I know it won’t because it’s a claim on my ins but my question is would they be held with any liability since he was parked facing wrong way and directly in front of my driveway? Would my ins deny a claim to them due to him parking etc….
I have a weird feeling they want cash, but are going to try to get me for a whole new bed of his truck (or more) by saying they will just get an estimate. Heck I’m not trying to bitch but if your 16 yr old just got his license then he should know (and so should parents) he can’t park his truck like that. Also the family I feel needed to maybe think about their neighbors ( that have a quad cab dodge truck) who own 2 trucks and a trailer with atvs and bikes across the street and the possibility of my husband or myself NOT being able to get out of my driveway due to his “new truck” and great parking job. If the 18 yr old senior girl who also drives a truck 2 doors down can park the correct way and be courteous to her neighborhood why can’t a 16 yr old boy do the same.
Also to point out they have a open spot in their driveway for his new truck to park too!
Thanks for the vent along with the question. Hope I can get some answers to their liability if any.
Thanks

I can’t speak for other localities, but where I live it is patent that enforcement of the no-parking-the-wrong-direction law has nothing whatever to do with public safety. This rule is enforced strictly as a means of generating revenue from parking citations.

In previous times the law was rarely if ever enforced. In fact, many people didn’t even know the law existed. However, since the economic implosion of 2007 rendered my city government all but insolvent, the city council has focused on parking enforcement as a revenue stream. Both fines and enforcement have increased considerably. Initially the city even extended the hours of parking enforcement; they only rolled that idiot policy back once it became clear that city council members were in danger of being lynched by local small businesses, who were taking it in the shorts because of the crackdown on parking violations.

While there are in fact safety implications with wrong-way parking, and while some municipalities enforce the relevant laws to mitigate the danger, this is indisputably not the case in my neck of the woods.

I was a civilian employee of a police department in Texas and this is what numerous officers told me: You are more likely to veer too far to the right and hit a parked vehicle than you are to cross a lane or lanes of traffic and hit a car on the other side of the road. If you are unfortunate enough to hit a parked car, you want to hit the trunk instead of the engine compartment because the trunk has a larger “crumple zone”.

Parking on the wrong side of a two-way street might only mean you live on that side of the street. It doesn’t mean you are driving on the wrong side, nor does it mean you intend to when you drive off again. Mostly, it just means you can get out on the curb rather than on the street-side (in the way of traffic). Just sayin’. Otherwise, don’t do it because it’s against the law but, I’m still not sure why, at least on residential streets. Again, just satin’. However, after reading some of the other comments, such as the safety issue at night (reflecting red tail lights) I can see the reasons better.

What happens if you had to jumpstart your car, in a minimal traffic street where I live.
We had to drive the car to face the other way in order for the leads to reach the car to jump start it.
Not a word of a lie, in the time we were driving the car around the block to get power through the engine again, the ticket appeared on the car facing the wrong way.

All you individuals quoting safety, you’re clearly not using your brain. Also, anecdotal evidence is not enough to make a law, nor overturn one. But let’s take safety without regard to whether it should or should not be a law already. All cars have drivers. This is a fact. Until very recently, cars could not park themselves. Therefore getting out of the car is SIGNIFICANTLY more dangerous to the driver when parking with the flow of traffic. On to the second point. In the scenario where you have obeyed the law and parked with traffic flow, and you started pulling out of the parking spot, you are on a diagonal. Therefore there is a high likelihood that NONE of your lights are facing the traffic coming from the flow direction you parked in (draw this out and use your brain). Therefore by parking CONTRARY to traffic there is a GUARANTEE that one of your headlights is pointing at oncoming traffic. Therefore at night it makes MORE sense to park contrary to traffic. I will freely admit the points about parking contrary is confusing at night with all lights off and not being able to see the road, but IF YOU ARE THAT CONFUSED AND CANNOT SEE THE ROAD YOU SHOULD HAVE SLOWED DOWN AND/OR STOPPED ALREADY. The ONLY merit I have heard so far that makes sense is that pulling out you do not have mirrors or a clear line of sight to see what cars are coming. This is a clear deficiency and a good reason for the law. That being said, I would guess that it is completely offset by the fact that the driver is in danger exiting the vehicle with current laws. Not to mention that the whole ‘not being able to see’ thing happens every day when reversing out of a perpendicular parking spot. And as a final note, until someone runs a test and proves that parking contrary to traffic is MORE dangerous, it SHOULD NOT BE A DAMN LAW. We live in the United States, the government is supposed to be the least restrictive it can possibly be, not the other way around…

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