Benoire:

 

Geese: On the subject of reversing down a driveway and hitting something or someone and being at fault... Is it actually law that all properties by design must have allowances for vehicle to be able to turn around on the property to then leave driving forwards back out, or is that rubbish like the common misconception cabbage trees can't be cut down?

 

This would only be part of a consent condition.  I don't believe there is a law on reverse manoeuvring, but most new developments that have frontage access to arterials or other important corridors have a consent condition to build turning areas.  Enforcement I think is based on the condition, e.g. can only enter and exit property in forward gears... breaching this would be a breach of the RMA/LGA and not road user rules/code.

 

You would need a lot of land to allow a car to turn around on their property. They essentially have to do a 3 point turn, and the postage sized sections these days which councils now allow, wouldn't allow for this. I back out onto a main road from a garage near the road, but have a backing camera, and do it very slowly. That hasn't however stopped a kid on a bike, riding on the footpath, running into the side of my car door. There is potentially more viability with me backing out than going out frontwards, as if going out forwards my bonnet would go out first, and I can't see down the footpath until most is the bonnet is over the footpath.