Vehicle access - kerbs
About vehicle crossings
A vehicle crossing can be made by lowering an area of pavement and kerb to create a dropped kerb which gives access to vehicles from a road across a grass verge or a footway and onto a driveway or parking area.
A vehicle crossing needs to be built to a higher specification than a normal footway. This is because it has to allow for vehicles to drive over footways without causing damage to service cables and mains buried underneath.
It is against the law to drive over a public footway without using an authorised vehicle crossing, as damage will be caused to the footway or services underneath.