pavement blocked again, bodycam (date on cam incorrect)
Channel: ScrapHeapChallenge
Date: 2020-02-06

I'm a wheelchair user and this is just one of MANY examples of vehicles blocking my way, being illegally parked. It happens to me every time I leave the house and it's exhausting. 

I tried a bodycam for the first time tonight after being attacked a couple of times. Apologies for quality I need to find a better way to affix it to my clothing, and my scarf fell over it for a while (it was freezing tonight). For reference, the pavement on the left has a second kerb stepping up to a brick area that my powerchair can't get onto. There was literally NO other way around. Powerchairs can't wheelie over obstacles like some manual wheelchairs can. 

There is no pavement I can get to on the other side of the road, no dropped kerbs, no way past, I literally couldn't get home. This was the second time today, and aproximately the 9th time this week. I've been verbally assaulted three times this week alone for simply politely asking people to move illegally parked vehicles so I can get past. 

The one this morning was on double yellow lines, with kerb flashes, across a dropped kerb, within 10' of a junction and on a resident's only parking street without a permit, and yet still she yelled at me for asking her to move. 

For reference, the van wasn't "broken down", that was a lie. This area is a hotspot for illegal parking like this. The traffic wardens came down shortly after to deal with him as after moving it he immediatley moved it right back again. 

This happens every time I leave the house and it's exhausting, it's wearing me down, especially when I don't know if the person I ask to move their car will do so and apologise, or will attack me.