A blind pensioner today hit out at thoughtless drivers after he stumbled into cars parked illegally on a pavement in Telford.

John Tuck was trying to avoid two cars parked on the pavement in Birchley Close, Priorslee, and so crossed the road but then walked into two more on the opposite side of the road.

The 75-year-old, of Collett Way, Priorslee, said his guide dog didn’t know how to handle pavement-parked cars as he had been trained not to walk alongside vehicles.

He said he was now finding it distressing to go out walking with his two-year-old labrador retriever, Simpson.

Mr Tuck said: “I walked my dog down to the lake, by Birchley Close, and suddenly the dog refused to walk. The reason was because cars were parked on the pavement.

“The dog is trained to walk on the pavements and  to walk around cars, but when they are blocking the pavement he stops because he doesn’t know what to do.

“The dog was just at an absolute loss so I decided to cross the road and walked straight into a car. It was right on the pavement.

Mr Tuck contacted police who issued letters to houses in the area. Spokeswoman for Telford Police, Denise Wakefield, said: Police will be issuing tickets as a next step to those causing an obstruction.”