Downtown parking claims a victim

File photo.

We've had first hand descriptions of the aftermath of a timpist outside the Powder Room last evening, when a car parked nose in at that point had its rear clipped by a vehicle coming from across the bridge, writes Brian Byrne.

The vehicle had to swing wide to get around cars parked on the Town Hall side and then its load hit the tail-out car, the rear of which was well out into the traffic line.

According to one correspondent, it was a case of 'when the predictable happens', and the rear of the parked car was sticking into the traffic line. "The victim tonight was ... the driver of the vehicle coming down the hill," she writes. "It is very hard to see how culpability lies with the driver of the moving vehicle, when the vehicle he hit was clearly obstructing traffic ... and tomorrow, there will be another car in the same spot, parked with equal disregard ..."

(And there was, when the Diary went down to the spot this morning.)

As our file photo on top shows, this is something we have highlighted several times before. The parking space involved is marked as a horizontal to the kerb one.

To be fair, the marking for that is hard to see now. But the Council has only been looking at it since 2017 ... 

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