One driver arrived home to find a stranger’s car parked on her driveway.
There was no explanation to where the Vauxhall Zafira came from or who it belonged to.
Homeowner Natalie Robbins wanted to get to the bottom of the issue and appealed on Facebook to try and find the owner.
“Does anybody know whose car this is? It’s been parked on my drive since last night. Police have been notified,” she wrote on the DN35 Crimewatch group.
The homeowner added that they towed the car off the drive onto the front of the road so it wasn’t blocking their car.
What’s more when she reported the car to the police, she was informed that the law was not on her side and she could not remove the vehicle.
Surprisingly, it is not illegal for someone to park their car on your driveway.
Police or local authorities may not be able to help you if a stranger was to park their vehicle on your driveway.
Criminal and civil law becomes blurred when the vehicle ends up on a driveway because it is technically on private property.
Once a car ends up on your driveway the vehicle is now technically on private land – which local councils have zero jurisdiction over.
If the car was blocking your driveway while parked on a public road local authorities have the power to fine the offending motorist.
Councils also have the power to move cars from both public and private property, if they have been abandoned.
However, if the car has up-to-date tax, insurance, MOT and isn’t in a dangerous condition, then the council is unlikely to do remove it.
A spokesman for North East Lincolnshire Council said: “As the land is privately owned it would usually be up to the landowner to arrange for the vehicle to be removed.
