Pensioner who shunted cars blocking his garage banned from driving

An angry pensioner has been banned from driving after being filmed on CCTV shunting a car which was blocking access to his garage. Ronald Pemberton, 83, used his Peugeot to push a Ford Ka which had parked in front of his lock-up. The incident caused chaos as the Ka was shunted into the road outside a primary school.



Two weeks later he was caught repeating the offence outside Cabot Primary School in St Paul’s, Bristol, by pushing a silver Mazda into the road. Pemberton, of St Paul’s, pleaded guilty at Bristol Magistrates’ Court earlier this year to dangerous driving for the first incident on November 24, 2009. He denied the second offence on December 9 last year but was found guilty by a jury.

Sarah Regan, prosecuting, said the manoeuvres satisfied the test for dangerous driving. She said: ”The way you deal with it is to leave a note on the windscreen and have a word when they come back. You don’t use your car to move it.” Recorder Nicholas Rowland banned Pemberton from driving for 12 months and ordered him to pay nearly £2,000 in fines, court costs and compensation.



He told him: ”It is an expensive lesson for you. I hope you will think long and hard before you do anything like this again. No doubt you were severely irritated with the long-existing parking problem. It’s very sad to see somebody of your age in court at all but I’m afraid you can’t go taking the law into your own hands.”