More than car insurance to worry about, parking rage is on the up

More and more people are becoming car owners in the UK. There are more than 24 million cars on the roads, which is one car for every 2.1 people. 71% of households have at least one car and 22% have two or more cars. The cost of car ownership is high with car insurance, road tax, servicing and fuel to pay for, although for women, car insurance is cheaper than it is for men. However, the cost of motoring is not what causes aggression amongst drivers these days. Parking rage is the new road rage.

Amongst communities where once leylandii hedges, loud music and unruly children were the common causes of arguments, these days the amount of parking spaces is a major cause for rows amongst neighbours. Parking spaces in some areas are hard to come by and many drivers will park their car in any space they can, even if it means they are blocking another person's access or are on double yellow lines.

Many motorists also believe that they should be able to park their car outside their own home and feel that they have an unwritten right to the road right outside their front door. In a society where there are feuds raging in every other community and many people are suffering from stress as a result, parking rage is a phenomenon that we could all do without.

Although we have a few things to smile about, for example, because for women, car insurance is cheaper than it is for men, there are some simple steps we can all take to alleviate tension between neighbours and give everyone a reason to smile:

"Always respect your neighbours' point of view. Unless you live on a large country estate chances are you may be quite close to your neighbours and therefore will have to tolerate each other

"Unless you have a designated parking space you do not have to right to park right outside your house. If someone else has got there first then you cannot ask them to move

" Never block another person's access. There is nothing more frustrating than being blocked in your driveway when you are trying to get to work

"Don't park on double yellow lines, especially when they extend round the end of a junction. They are there so that drivers can see what traffic is coming. You will be causing a dangerous obstruction

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