AN irate pedestrian is so fed up with cars parking on pavements he has taken to folding in wing mirrors.

Steve Wheeler, aged 68, says he has folded in 100 wing mirrors in the last year in a bid to stop pavement parking, and he is part of a bigger movement in the town.

He says cars parked on pavements are forcing buggies and wheelchairs into the road and wants to end the practice.

“If you are walking down a road and a car is parked right in the pavement you push the door mirror in,” he said.

“I suppose in the last year I have had to fold in 100 wing mirrors. It isn’t illegal, they are causing an obstruction."

Mr Wheeler claims to be a member of Malvern Against Pavement Parking (MAPPs), which campaigns against vehicles obstructing walkways.

He said the group has 273 members and is active across the Malverns and in Barnards Green.

“We are not damaging anything, we are just saying if you see your wing mirror is pushed in – because someone had to squeeze past – then think about it.”

“I’m a pensioner and don’t see why I should walk in the road to get past a car parked on the pavement," he said.

“My friend has polio and is in a wheelchair and he has to go out into the road because of the parked cars.

“It’s just so annoying. We are just trying to get the message across to people not to park on the pavement.”

Mr Wheeler, who walks three to five miles every day, claims to have pushed in hundreds of mirrors in his four years as a member of the group.

The Malvern resident also insists that he does not go out of his way to do it and says he only acts if the vehicle is an obstruction.

He says he has met other members of MAPPs in the street although he does not have contact details for them.

“It’s a word of mouth group, there is no Facebook page,” he said.

Mr Wheeler is known locally for having the largest collection of milk bottles in the UK, with over 20,000 in a museum in his garden. 

The Gazette spoke with almost all of Malvern’s town councillors but none of them had heard of the organisation.

Drivers can be given a fixed penalty notice for parking on the pavement if an obstruction is committed.

The police say it is not a crime to push a wing mirror, as long as no damage is caused.