“Shut your mouth and keep walking” was the response when a mum asked the female driver of WX22REU to not park on the pavement when they were picking up from Dulwich Village Infants.
We’re told the head teacher
@dulwichinfants
has been sworn at when she’s challenged drivers.
📵The driver of LY18KVC was so distracted by her phone she didn't even look up before pulling away on East Dulwich Grove.
⚠️Would you cycle in front of such a distracted driver?
💷 6pts on her licence and £200 fine after being reported online to
@metpoliceuk
@MPSGooseGreen
A driver evading ANPR cameras on the Elmcourt Road/ Rosemead prep school street this morning by illegally covering his number plates with tape.
He kept it on and drove all the way through Herne Hill. Front and back covered.
The driver of an SUV has rolled their car over onto its roof on Croxted Road. This is a 20mph speed limit. Expect delays this afternoon.
Hopefully nobody was hurt by this driver. Remarkable how modern SUVs are so much more dangerous and prone to rolling onto their roof.
⚠️😡 The driver of Range Rover LT14AWA is back again this morning dropping off at
@AlleynsSchool
and parking dangerously on a corner with double yellows with no stopping blips.
Who should we be more disappointed with? The driver,
@AlleynsSchool
@MPSDulwichVllge
or
@lb_southwark
⚠️ The driver of LT14AWA is back again, dropping off at
@AlleynsSchool
📵Driving on Calton Avenue on their mobile phone
💨idling half in the disabled bay and half on DYLs.
⚠️Dangerous parking and dangerous driving from this
@AlleynsSchool
parent/carer, endangering others.
The driver of LJ66HTZ ignores multiple road closure signs and drives around barriers on Huntslip Rd, endangering workmen and children walking home from school.
He removes the last barrier and drives off on Alleyn Park. Can
@MPSDulwichWood
have a presence?
A south London school run mum is fined £3,000 after she injured 11 children by mounting a pavement outside a school by mistakenly pressing the accelerator pedal instead of the brake of her SUV.
😱Children on bikes are screaming as they are close passed by a driver racing along Hillsboro school street this morning.
⚠️Failing to give way and driving through a school street closure.
This was undoubtably safer with barriers at either end, now ineffective £ ANPR cameras.
Driver of SUV LM18ZKO was put back on course by the bollard outside Kings College Hospital, in London.
The sight lines on these SUVs are so poor, more junctions need bollards to protect against these drivers…
@WorldBollard
The wAr oN mOtORiSts!!!
⚠️ Driver of
@MercedesBenz
M555STB gets the hat trick of parking on the pavement, and on a cycle lane, and on double yellows on Etherow Street, outside a school.
And of course, there is a “highly dangerous” 4 year old cycling on the pavement... 🤷♀️
20mph speed limit signs have gone up today on the South Circular/A205 (Dulwich Common).
The south circular is the scene of frequent serious crashes, including with fatalities. Some of which we have tweeted about before… (1/2)
"On your advice, 4 drivers prosecuted in just a few minutes of shopping in Dulwich Village. Now every time if I see someone parking illegally on the zebra crossing, I film on my phone and report online."
E112NOW
PE21OMF
DK15OLU
LX15FKS
4 drivers: FPN of 3pts and £100 fine
⚠️The driver of Range Rover LT14AWA repeatedly parks on double yellows at the junction of Calton Ave and Townley/Woodwarde making the junctions dangerous.
We’ve received multiple reports, including the driver gets aggressive and “claims to not know what double yellows are”🤦♂️
An SUV has been driven off road and down the path from Peabody Hill to Peabody Cottages, causing damage to the path and railings.
A rare example of an SUV in London going off road, albeit illegally and unsuccessfully.
Driver of GU54FBF on their phone driving down College Rd and A205, Dulwich on 7/5/2022. Reported to
@metpoliceuk
with video when stopped at the lights. Driver failed to attend court and found guilty in absence: 6 points+£554 fine and costs. It is an offence to use a ... (1/2)
🚲Why don’t cyclists use the cycle lanes? 😡
⚠️ Maybe because whenever there is one, a car is going to park in it and block the cycle lane, just like the driver of LG66PVP outside
@JAGSschool
this morning.
Isn’t this road a school street now? 🤔
The Volvo driver of LD20VBZ doing the school run to
@Dulwichhamlet
drives on the wrong side of Turney Road directly at a parent and child (cycling alongside) going the other way through the junction. Reported to
@metpoliceuk
in Oct 2022 - no further action.
Driver of
@WeAreOpenreach
van FG71BCU parks on the Double yellows blocking the sight lines on the busy junction of Woodwarde and Calton Ave at school drop off.
When he sees a pedestrian photographing them on Tuesday he starts threatening them. How can they report his behaviour?
The driver of R1BTG repeatedly covered her reg plate to evade the ANPR cameras in Dulwich, London. She was seen by many local residents, including a mother on her bike with a child who was driven at aggressively by the driver. Footage was given to
@mpsdulwichvillage
who... (1/3)
A thoughtless driver blocking the dropped kerb for pedestrians on Dekker Rd, parked on double yellows.
A pedestrian called
@lb_southwark
parking on 02077088587 and within minutes the driver got a ticket.
A good example of the impact of extra Southwark parking wardens.
Driver of BMW OU02HER on the East Dulwich Road in Peckham, was tired of queuing for the red light, and decided to drive the wrong side of two keep left signs then over the pavement. The registered keeper failed to nominate a driver, resulting in 6pts + £461 fine + £146 costs.
⚠️Another crash on a 20mph road.
Correct headline is:
"Baby hospitalised because negligent driver crashed into a bike hangar situated in car parking bay, in daylight at 2:30pm".
Poor reporting in
@TheSun
today
@herbie_russell
/
@Southwark_News
What are the facts? (1/4)
Landrover driver of VX65WKK is (we’re told) a serial offender at parking dangerously outside
@DulwichCollege
on Huntslip Rd. And often abusive to anyone, like the lady on the right, who asks them not to.
⚠️”Parking here could endanger a child’s life”
My 3 y/o narrowly avoided being hit by a car today. He was on the pavement, the car wanted to park on the pavement. My screaming alerted the driver to the fact that a person, albeit 1 under 1m, was where he wanted his car to be,
This shouldn’t be a risk.
#safestreetsnow
Motorists like PJ58LBG are still covering their plates to evade the ANPR cameras in Dulwich and intimidate children cycling to school.
This motorcyclist had sprayed a very sticky substance on their plate and got abusive when an adult offered to wipe it off…
A 6 yr old was assaulted by a pedestrian who pushed the child off her bike on the cycle path on College Rd, nr the Picture Gallery.
@MPSDulwichVllge
@RM_Leeming
@margynewens
@Southwark_News
Abuse towards cyclists on this path is not uncommon. A different time, but same place:
Driver of GX14YOG attended a driver awareness course for close passing and careless driving in desperately trying to overtake multiple cyclists when it was not safe to do so - Turney Road, Dulwich. Reported to
@metpoliceuk
.
@MPSDulwichVllge
Audi driver of VA66DDE got a letter in the post after a pedestrian reported online to
@metpoliceuk
a video of them parked on the zebra crossing on College Rd outside
@DulwichCollege
⚠️ A fixed penalty notice of 3pts on their licence and £100.
🚫 Don’t park on crossings.
Driver of van RJ69FZA got a Fixed Penalty Notice of 3pts and £100 fine for using the zebra crossing in Dulwich Village as a drop off. Blocking sight lines to see anyone crossing.
A short video from a mobile phone was submitted to
@metpoliceuk
“Report a road traffic incident”.
📵The driver of X572HLD was so distracted by his phone on East Dulwich Grove that he didn't see the massive "WhatsApp Gap" in front.
📷Would you cycle inside of such a distracted driver?
NIP issued by
@metpoliceuk
, driver likely got an FPN of 6pts + £200.
@MPSGooseGreen
@mcash
Very disappointing to hear
@Emmabarnett
ridiculing her speeding offence on
@BBCRadio4
this morning.
As someone who is often seen driving her SUV around the roads of Dulwich, we would ask her to try and drive legally + safely to protect others.
@MPSDulwichVllge
@MPSGooseGreen
Why are
@BBCr4today
promoting dangerous driving by failing to challenge claims by
@QuentinWillson
that 20mph limits are “draconian” and allowing its presenter to downplay her own speeding?
No wonder nobody respects the rule of law.
The fish rots from the head down.
📵The driver of LA22FMD was so distracted by Facebook they didn't see the huge gap in front of them on East Dulwich Grove... until a car horn from behind. 5/5/2023
🚲Would you cycle in front of such a distracted driver?
⚠️Penalty: 6pts, £144 fine & £56 costs
@MPSGooseGreen
📵A pedestrian videoed this phone driver (WV05CXR) as part of another video about how dangerous this junction is on East Dulwich Grove and the need for a crossing.
@mcash
💷 Submitted to
@metpoliceuk
online and the driver accepted an FPN (£200 and 6 points on their licence).
What is the point of a cycle lane up Denmark Hill if delivery lorries are always parked in it? A cyclist trying to cycle up the hill has to pull out into traffic.
@southwarkcycle
shouldn't this have wands installed, or at least enforcement, or scrap it as a waste of paint?
Some drivers show up again and again on our roads…
The driver of LY18OSE crashed into the central reservation on East Dulwich Grove yesterday.
Was it the same driver who had previously parked the car dangerously on Huntslip Rd junction/pavement outside
@DulwichCollege
?
“Absolute carnage cycling Alleyn Park/Hunt’s Slip Rd/College Rd” yesterday morning, writes a parent.
⚠️For example, the driver of LY18OSE parking on the pavement, on double yellows, at the junction of Huntslip and College Road. Right outside the entrance to a junior school.
Driver crashes over the pavement and cycle lane and into the wall on the A205 by the
@HornimanMuseum
Were they coming down Sydenham Hill (20mph) at such speed they were unable to stop and so they crossed the carriageway and pavement?
We hope nobody was hurt by this driver?
⚠️ Driver of DA21MXD ignores the double yellows, the yellow hatching and parks dangerously on the narrow pavement outside
@DulwichCollege
sports centre.
Lots of families pass through this entrance on Saturday mornings.
⚠️The driver of GF59VNH received a warning from
@metpoliceuk
for this dangerous overtake on College Rd, Dulwich.
The overtake gave plenty of space by moving into the other lane ... except for the oncoming cyclist. 😳 A driver also shouldn't be overtaking on a zebra crossing.
A 4 year old cycling to DVIS school along the Dulwich Village pavement is often the cause of complaints to
@MPSDulwichVllge
as a “menace to pedestrians”
⚠️ Meanwhile an HGV from Sybron (MF23RVV) frequently blocking the crossing over Gilkes Crescent, is ignored. A real danger.
If the driver of LT62HWZ hadn’t been on her phone she might have avoided blocking the pedestrian crossing with her car.
Why the need to swear at an 8 year old and parent when they ask you politely not to use your phone?
A205/Rosendale Rd.
Driver of FG16MGJ overtakes on the wrong side of a keep left sign (and pedestrian island) putting pedestrians in danger. College Road, Dulwich. Reported to
@metpoliceuk
with no further action.
The driver of RX05ERV is repeatedly driving on the pavement and stopping on double yellow lines to drop off
@DulwichPrep
Children on the cycle path have to dodge his driving.
How will Huntslip Rd changes improve safety if drivers ignore the Headmaster and the law?
We’ve been sent pictures of this car in the same spot before.
There are persistent group of drivers on the school run who disregard the law and put others in danger. More enforcement is needed.
Parents of Dulwich Village Infants school are regularly parking on the pavement outside the school, breaking the law and putting pedestrians in danger.
Why do
@MPSDulwichVllge
never take action against illegal and dangerous pavement driving?
#OpParkSafe
MK11UHO WX22REU
The conservative candidate
@Chrissie_W13
for Lewisham and East Dulwich thinks:
“20mph speed limits encourage dangerous overtaking and demonise those who require a car”.
The average speed in London is 12mph. A pedestrian is 10 times more likely to survive at 20mph vs 30mph.
If drivers keep parking on the pavements in Dulwich, where will all the
@limebike
go? 😉
⚠️Hazard warning lights don’t make this parking legal or safe. Parking on a pavement outside a school? 🤬
Pavements are for people not cars.
Why don’t people get their e-bikes and scooters off the pavement and park them in the on-road bays provided? 😡
The driver of FG67USX on Lordship Lane today:
"What!" 👀
⚠️The driver of KS58HDV failed to stop for a pedestrian using the zebra crossing outside
@dulwichcollege
on College Rd. 10:58hrs 25/9/2023
Distracted? Unwilling? Dangerous💯
The cyclist reported online to
@metpoliceuk
but No Further Action taken
@MPSDulwichVllge
Those
@limebikes
might be a nuisance when you’re not walking along the pavement, but they don’t drive up behind you with 2 tonnes of metal like the driver of GJ71MKZ.
College Rd is a wide road with plenty of free and unrestricted parking. So why illegally mount the pavement?
⚠️The driver of KN67XGF was sent a Notice of Intended Prosecution for parking on the zebra crossing on College Road outside
@DulwichCollege
The FPN is 3pts and £100
🚷This blocks sight lines endangering pedestrians crossing
Another submission from a village resident/pedestrian
Texting on WhatsApp whilst driving through traffic on the school run on
@east_grove
saw the driver of GL68OPB receive 6pts and a fine after being reported online to
@metpoliceuk
Distracted driving is one of the
#fatal4
causes of collisions.
@MPSDulwichVllge
⚠️ Driver of LT14AWA was back this morning. Now parking on double yellows and blocking the entrance to the cycle lane.
Driver confirmed to a parent that they are dropping
@AlleynsSchool
pupil. We ask the school to take action as
@MPSDulwichVllge
and
@lb_southwark
can’t/won’t.
⚠️ The driver of Range Rover LT14AWA is back again, parking dangerously on Double Yellows this time at the junction of Townley and Calton Ave.
Parking like this blocks sight lines and puts pupils and parents in danger at junctions.
@AlleynsSchool
@JAGSschool
⚠️ A driver has crashed a vehicle into the grounds of
@JudithKerrPS
Primary School, Dulwich, over Christmas Day/Boxing Day.
Smashed through bollards, over a pavement, through a fence and trees.
The number plates on the vehicle were missing.
Vehicle has now been removed.
If you want to see how unstable these SUVs are, this video is a perfect illustration. SUVs are less safe, but higher profits for the car companies and now we’re left with little choice for alternative safer cars as manufacturers are stopping making many safer non-SUV cars.
Another two in one. A pedestrian made a video report to
@metpoliceuk
for the drivers of LV22WBM & GJ18XSB
⚠️ They each got 3pts on their licence and £100 fine for parking on the pedestrian crossing outside
@DulwichCollege
🚫 Don’t park on pedestrian crossings.
The registered keeper of MF08AYH “Pimlico Building Contractors Ltd” failed to give details of the driver, so they instead received 6pts + £660 fine + £166 costs in court.
Drove the wrong side of a keep left sign and parked on the zebra crossing in Dulwich Village 11/6/2021
The driver of LR67LGC decided not to wait in queue to turn right, but try and jump the queue and drive on the wrong side of the road towards cyclists (including children) going through the junction. 30/6/2021 Reported to
@metpoliceuk
and the driver prosecuted.
Porsche driver of LV21UYR parked today on the pavement on Croxted Rd outside
@DulwichBooks
At least it is electric so no pollution as they block wheelchair access on the pavement.
@YPLAC
A lamp post down on Court Lane. ⚠️
What could possibly have knocked over and bent such a heavy metal object? 🤔
Who pays for this damage?
We’re told that Court Lane Residents Association consistently raise children cycling on pavements as the greatest risk? Surely not? 😳
Van YX13JKE
@i_hate_ironing
decides to try and evade the ANPR camera restrictions on Burbage Rd, Dulwich, by driving the wrong side of a keep left sign, and over a zebra crossing, putting pedestrians at risk 19/7/2021. Reported
@metpoliceuk
- no further action
@lb_southwark
A resident writes to us:
"I only took about 30 seconds of video for each of these, and the Police told me they sent a Notice of Intended Prosecution. I guess 3 pts and £100 fine? Every time I go into the village I see someone parking badly now".
⚠️WX67XZT, FY67XUF, RE05OXP
Driver of Volvo XC90 LS69NSE doesn’t mind blocking the tactile pavement and raised side road crossing on Lordship Lane.
⚠️ Disabled and blind pedestrian users of the pavement are less important than the convenience for this SUV driver. Double yellows are painted for a reason.
Pedestrians having to step into the road last night to go around a very selfish SUV driver who parked their vehicle right across the pavement on East Dulwich Grove.
Unfortunately, this SUV can’t be lifted out of the way by the more able bodied, like a hire bike can be…
"More prosecutions from my shopping trips to the village. I just take a short video of 25 seconds if anyone is parked dangerously and submit online"
A resident who is tired of dangerous parking, ensures these drivers got 3pts and £100:
⚠️ LB17BBN, AK21RJX, LA18VML
More expensive parking in Dulwich Village…
£354 fine & costs + 3 pts. for
@BoulangerieJade
Proved in absence in court. Parking on a zebra crossing puts pedestrians on the crossing in danger.
You can report Road traffic incidents online to
@metpoliceuk
@MPSDulwichVllge
Every day the driver of RF72FPN parks on the pavement and on double yellow lines to drop off a pupil at
@DulwichCollege
No police enforcement from
@MPSDulwichWood
and no Dulwich Estate parking enforcement. These roads will never be safe from bad drivers without enforcement.
Any scheme on Dulwich Estate roads is only as strong as the parking enforcement, which is mostly non-existent.
So drivers like RF72FPN park every day during school term on double yellow lines and the pavements safe in the knowledge they will never get a ticket.
We’ve received three more accounts: 2x female cyclists and 1x male cyclist, who have all been abused on this cycle path. The abuse is by middle aged and older women who shout at children or adults on bikes, despite them cycling considerately.
@MPSDulwichVllge
@DulwichSociety
⚠️The driver of LN17BWV was parked on double yellows, blocking the pavement, and idling with fumes being pumped into a shop in West Dulwich. 💨
When politely asked not to, the driver refused and was very rude.
Why are drivers like this so inconsiderate?
Driver of VE17ORW received an FPN (3pts and £100) for parking on the zebra crossing outside
@DulwichCollege
Parking on Zebra Crossings blocks sight lines putting pedestrians at risk. This is why this is a Met police matter and a citizen report online results in prosecution.
Police speed check outside
@JudithKerrPS
school on Half Moon Lane, Dulwich, catching speeding and dangerous drivers. And yet cab drivers think this is just a cash cow? 🤬
Easy way for cabbies to avoid a fine, is to drive within the law.
@TfL
@MPSHerneHill
@MPSDulwichVllge
Drivers of Porsche WX22ZXK and Range Rover N100RLC park on the double yellows of Gilkes Crescent/Dulwich Village.
⚠️This blocks wheelchair access over the dropped kerb and blocks sight lines making the crossing more dangerous for others.
@YPLAC
Yet another driver seen driving through the ANPR cameras during the school street closures with a missing or obscured number plate.
Very common now and needs more enforcement from
@metpoliceuk
At 8:49 this white Audi was seen driving through Townley Road.
@MPSDulwichVllge
⚠️The 24 year old male driver of
@RoyalMail
van KT18DDN attended a driver retraining course after parking on the zebra crossing outside
@DulwichCollege
on Huntslip Rd.
Blocking sight lines on zebra crossings endangers pedestrians. Report these yourself online to
@metpoliceuk
"Children shouldn't ride on the pavements!"
⚠️But the only dedicated cycle lane in the whole area, is often blocked by coaches dropping at
@DulwichPrep
. A danger to children going to
@KingsdaleFS
@DWSchoolStreet
@nocarschoolrun
⚠️"Stopping here could endanger a child's life"
⚠️ The driver of LT14AWA is back again, dropping off at
@AlleynsSchool
📵Driving on Calton Avenue on their mobile phone
💨idling half in the disabled bay and half on DYLs.
⚠️Dangerous parking and dangerous driving from this
@AlleynsSchool
parent/carer, endangering others.
⚠️ Driver of LT14AWA was back this morning. Now parking on double yellows and blocking the entrance to the cycle lane.
Driver confirmed to a parent that they are dropping
@AlleynsSchool
pupil. We ask the school to take action as
@MPSDulwichVllge
and
@lb_southwark
can’t/won’t.
Driver of GN68RWE parked on a zebra crossing Huntslip Rd, SE21 on 13/12/2021 costing him £294 + 3 pts on his licence. Picking up from
@DulwichCollege
and putting others at risk including
@DulwichPrep
@KingsdaleFS
. Reported online
@metpoliceuk
. His trip to court involved...(1/2)
Good to see a parking ticket for the driver of this car R321CWH parked on the pavement, blocking a cycle lane and on double yellow lines outside
@DulwichPrep
at morning drop off on Huntslip Road.
👍
@lb_southwark
Another perfectly normal day in Herne Hill as yet another HGV drives over the pavement, over a zebra crossing and into Brockwell Park.
Parents holding children far back from danger on the pavements. No banksman for the HGV.
This is not safe.
Two in one pedestrian video report to
@metpoliceuk
for the drivers of BP16COH and LS06FON
⚠️ They each got 3pts on their licence and £100 fine for parking on the pedestrian crossing outside
@DulwichCollege
🚫 Don’t park on pedestrian crossings.
Driver of reg CAT1J was reported twice stopping on the zebra crossing outside
@DulwichCollege
⚠️Reported online to
@MetCC
a few days apart by different parents, and a NIP->FPN each time (3pts + £100 fine).
🤦♀️We're told this distinctive reg plate travels barely a mile from home.
Parents of Dulwich Village Infants school are regularly parking on the pavement outside the school, breaking the law and putting pedestrians in danger.
Why do
@MPSDulwichVllge
never take action against illegal and dangerous pavement driving?
#OpParkSafe
MK11UHO WX22REU
Buses are at a standstill in Herne Hill as parking on double yellows on every corner means buses can’t pass. All chaos caused by
@lambeth_council
events in Brockwell Park.
£low fines are seen as just a parking charge. Vehicles need towing or fined by
@MPSHerneHill
“Drove right at me on the pavement… very easy to see there were two buggies!”
Is this how
@AmazonUK
drivers should deliver in Dulwich, London? Mounting and parking on the pavement?
Why do local police teams not issue fines and points to the many drivers who are breaking the law by speeding and putting others in danger?
No deterrence to the dangerous drivers, and no improvement in road safety.
@MPSGooseGreen
@InspTomCornish
@markandcharlie
@metpoliceuk
A successful day for Goose Green & Champion Hill NPTs. We stopped few cars who were speeding over 25 mph, words of advice were given to them. We are planning on doing this event regularly now.
“You can’t park here mate”
A driver has crossed over two opposing lanes, over the bike lane, smashed through bike loops, over the pavement and crashed into the fence outside Harris Primary School on Peckham Rd.
We hope nobody was injured or on the pavement.
...used the information to deal with the driver directly. It is sad to see such repeated criminality by someone with a personalised number plate. But bad drivers are bad drivers, and so it is unsurprising to see that the car currently has a long expired MOT. There are... (2/3)
Parked on Double Yellows, directly outside two schools, blocking a bus at the bus stop.
The driver of black
@LandRover
Y8AEN complete with vanity plate showing classic
@yplac
entitlement on Dulwich Village at school drop off yesterday.
Stuck in traffic on Park Hall Rd at the junction with Croxted Rd?
⚠️The driver of LB04GJK just uses the pavement as another lane to drive over. This is a busy pavement with pupils walking to nearby schools.
Why don’t cyclists always use the cycle lanes in Dulwich?! 🤬
⚠️When there is one, invariably a car will park itself in the lane. Nothing to do with the driver, of course…
College Rd/Fountain Drive:
@AndyCoxDCS
It is like 9/11 happening every single year on UK roads.
Or a passenger plane crashing every month in the UK. The
@aaibgovuk
investigate every air crash and make recommendations so flying is now incredibly safe. But nothing equivalent is done to prevent road fatalities.
The car Y8BBE with no tax, insurance or mot is still parking on the Yellow Zig Zags every day, this photo from yesterday afternoon at the usual 3:15pm. Enforcement needed from both
@lb_southwark
and
@MPSPeckhamRye
@MPSRTPC
to deal with this illegal driver and parking.
This registration plate Y8BBE has no record with DVLA. No insurance, tax or MOT. This illegal driver outside a school needs a visit from
@MPSRyeLane
@MPSGooseGreen
@MPSRTPC
any school day at 3:15pm. Thanks to followers for pointing this out. Bad parking too often illegal drivers