I often see people taking children out of car seats out of the rear offside door - into the road.

Why on earth isn't the child seat on the passenger side?

Can I add parking your three hour old new car in a car park. Giving a sufficient gap all round to my fellow car park users. Then returning 35 minutes later to find some person had inconsiderately opened their car door left a dent (and some white paint on my blue car) on my car door and driven off into obscurity.

Thats where I thought this thread was heading.

That's why I tend to park at angles now to make other users keep their Freakin distance.

This has been an offence for as long as I can remember, it is rarely prosecuted,

I think it was originally enacted to protect cyclists.

Its a good way to write off an old car if you get the chance, and now with dashcams everywhere you could even evidence your own claim/crash !

I say if your driving round in an old van or a landrover and fancy a claim for damage and distress and some fool opens the door on you then smash it shut, they will not do it again.

It's been a problem for a long time. As a child in the 50s I was much amused by a road safety film showing a man parking his Austin Eight, opening the door and having it smartly taken off by a Bentley driven by (I think) James Robertson Justice.

I can still visualise this indignant little man standing in the road holding his door.

The recent inconsiderate parking thread prompted me to have a moan about my latest bugbear: inconsiderate car door opening.

This seems to be getting more common around my area (SE England, just outside the M25), and I wondered if others find it a problem or if I'm just getting increasingly grumpy with age.

There are two categories:

a) Those who stop at the side of the road and leave the o/s car door open in traffic coming, forcing the traffic to give it a wide berth or stop if there's something coming the other way.

I always either let traffic pass before opening the door or if I need to get something out, I'll open the n/s door and reach across if needed. It seems both inconsiderate and dangerous to do otherwise.

b) Those who park up and open doors on both sides to hold court with their mates while they sit in the car.

This is thankfully less common, but I still see it from time to time. People (me included) have to make a detour round the car to avoid the doors obstructing the road and pavement.

I live just inside M25 near Bromley and around schools in the morning and afternoon all the above happen.

none of the drivers give a damn,ie parents drive as they please, park the same and open doors when they feel like it, including doing 3- 4 point turns where the kids cross and hold up all the traffic in the process

Roll on school holidays