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A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles. Usually, the term refers to a dedicated area that has been provided with a durable or semi-durable surface. In most countries where cars are the dominant mode of transportation, parking lots are a feature of every city and suburban area. Shopping malls, sports stadiums, megachurches and similar venues often feature immense parking lots. See also multistorey car park.
Parking lots tend to be sources of water pollution because of their extensive impervious surfaces. Most existing lots have limited or no facilities to control runoff. Many areas today also require minimum landscaping in parking lots to provide shade and help mitigate the extent of which their paved surfaces contribute to heat islands. Many municipalities require a minimum number of parking spaces, depending on the floor area in a store or the number of bedrooms in an apartment complex. In the United States, each state's Department of Transportation sets the proper ratio for disabled spaces for private business and public parking lots. Various forms of technology are used to charge motorists for the use of a parking lot. Modern parking lots use a variety of technologies to help motorists find unoccupied parking spaces, retrieve their vehicles, and improve their experience.

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    NSW Car park incident, I have received lawyer's letter demanding $9,448.68

    Hi, I don't know where to ask about this. I had a bump accident at a car park in the marketplace. It was 23 Oct last year. I parked my car and received text messages at the same time. I returned the text message forgetting lock the hand break. So, the car slowly moved and bumped the front...
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    NSW Car Park bump Accident and received $9,448.68 demand from lawyer.

    Hi, I don't know where to ask about this. I had a bump accident at a car park in the marketplace. It was 23 Oct last year. I parked my car and received text messages at the same time. I returned the text message forgetting lock the hand break. So, the car slowly moved and bumped the front...
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    QLD Car Park incident-Who is at fault?

    My wife was involved in an incident at a Coles car park, when exiting the car space (not reversing) at a crawling speed she was just over halfway out of the space when she was hit on the left front side of the bumper (our car is a Suburban 4wd), when she looked over to her left the young female...
  4. Sam4472

    VIC Dangerous car park

    My apartment car park is a descending spiral and the upper most turn is incredibly difficult, especially when exiting. Even for a compact sedan that particular turn requires multiple steps and requires you to get your passenger side (where it is harder to judge distance) extremely close to two...
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    QLD Car park collision legal advice

    Hello So I was reversing out of a park slowly looking over my shoulder and it was clear from my view, As iv started breaking and turned my head to go forward, a horn sounded as Iv collided with a car in the lane, So I’m not sure how fast he was going, or what not, but he’s blaming me saying...
  6. issac 5095

    SA On the division of responsibility for car park accidents

    我的A车(图中蓝色)停在车位,我准备离开时,看到另一辆车B(图中红色)向前行驶,我开始后退出车位,但刚刚前行的B车突然停下,开始倒车。我注意到我立即停止了我的A车,但B车并没有停止倒车,最终与我相撞。 在这种情况下,谁应该为事故负责?
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    WA Open door damage to parked car.

    Hello, My wife was parked on the road of a residential street. Another car arrived and parked parallel next to her on the verge of the property. They both went to a nearby shop and came back to their cars. My wife was putting our son in the back passenger side of the car so the door was open...
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    NSW Car Park Accident both car reversing- Each Bear Own

    Hello everyone, I had accident in a shopping center car park, while I was parked in my spot and trying to revers out to straight my car in the car spot, and there is another car trying to reverse into the car spot opposite to my spot ( she was revering on a one way car park lane) , and then we...
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    NSW Car passed behind me while I reversed out of car park

    My vehicle is a tray back ute with a canvas canopy, it has left and right external mirrors. I had parked nose first into a shopping centre car park and while reversing out of the park a car passed behind me and a collision occurred. My vision was limited due to a vehicle parked on my left and...
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    NSW Private Car Park lock in

    Hi, I would like some information on the legality of locking a gate into a medical centre car park and trapping a car inside that car park with no notices advising a closing time and/or options to retrieve the vehicle posted anywhere. Sole notices posted were that "Towing is in progress" and...