Snow chaos sees drivers blocked in at car park
10:00am Saturday 26th January 2013 in News
Snow chaos sees drivers blocked in at car park
DOZENS of confused commuters returned to their cars last night to find they had been blocked in.
Due to icy conditions in the long stay car park in Station Road many drivers found it hard to see the lines marking out the designated spaces.
As a result, a row of cars had parked in space which is usually a lane for access in and out of the car park.
Simon Kent, of Peatmoor, was one driver who found his Jaguar trapped between two cars.
Simon, who usually works in Royal Wootton Bassett, arrived at the car park in the morning and parked in one of the designated spaces, but was amazed to find himself blocked in when he returned yesterday evening.
He said: “I can’t believe what has happened. I parked the car this morning in a space with a car next to me and at that time there were no cars parked in the row which is meant to allow cars to get out.
“I can’t believe how stupid those people could be, they must have been so focused on what they were doing they didn’t pay attention to anything around them.”
Luckily Mr Kent was able to move his car soon after as the one which was blocking him in moved.
The fiasco was a distraction for office workers whose windows looked out over the car park.
Tricia Edwards, an employee of Workman, said that they had seen a lot of people trying to manoeuvre their way out of tight spaces with some bumping cars out of the way just to get out.
She said: “We noticed what had happened at about 3pm. We looked out of the window and saw the four lanes of cars all close to each other.
“There have been people who have got themselves in all sorts of trouble trying to get their cars out and some have barged the cars out of the way.
“There was one lady who came along and looked a bit dejected as she walked off.”
Comments(13)
Davey Gravey
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10:44am Sat 26 Jan 13
RichardR1 wrote:I agree robfm. Idiots, simple as that. Should have given them tickets and bans for being such morons.
Simply defies belief, snow or no snow it would be fairly obvious you were blocking someone in.
mjey
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11:11am Sat 26 Jan 13
snow, rain or sunshine :-)
Oldtownmum
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1:16pm Sat 26 Jan 13
spirite
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2:03pm Sat 26 Jan 13
rednwhitedynamite
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3:32pm Sat 26 Jan 13
faatmaan
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4:15pm Sat 26 Jan 13
roberto5
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5:33pm Sat 26 Jan 13
SomeoneWhoIsntMe
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11:02pm Sat 26 Jan 13
rednwhitedynamite wrote:hahaha! pure comedy gold right there.
To make things worse, I got back to my car and found someone had etched a huge penis in the ice on my windscreen.
semitonic
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1:30pm Sun 27 Jan 13
rednwhitedynamite wrote:Perhaps they thought you were one of the culprits.
To make things worse, I got back to my car and found someone had etched a huge penis in the ice on my windscreen.
semitonic
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1:35pm Sun 27 Jan 13
RichardR1 wrote:Hey Robbo, what did you think about the news that an Asthma study showed a decline in hospital admissions of 12.3% since smoking was banned in enclosed public places in 2007?
Simply defies belief, snow or no snow it would be fairly obvious you were blocking someone in.
Good news isn't it, or did you manage to find some other study that proves the opposite?
Chrisg46
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10:58pm Mon 28 Jan 13
semitonic wrote:wtf has that got to do with this story? Idiot.
RichardR1 wrote:Hey Robbo, what did you think about the news that an Asthma study showed a decline in hospital admissions of 12.3% since smoking was banned in enclosed public places in 2007?
Simply defies belief, snow or no snow it would be fairly obvious you were blocking someone in.
Good news isn't it, or did you manage to find some other study that proves the opposite?
On topic, if that camera was a little more to the right, my car would probably be in shot too!
In fairness to those who parked, it is possible to see how that happened, cant help being stupid accidentally sometimes!
However, on at least one occasion last week in the snow, i saw one absolute dipstick had just stopped his car in the middle of the lane and left, blocking off a whole segment of the car park. No accident about this one, it was just being a plain bone idle lazy pr*ck
benzss
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10:24am Tue 29 Jan 13
Oldtownmum wrote:But not at Waitrose and Harrods or your house, eh?
Only in swindon ;-)
RichardR1 says...
10:31am Sat 26 Jan 13