I too sympathise - I had my car written off last year after some Hit and Run driver completely smashed up my car last year which was parked up half on the pavement on a residential road in Balham. The road I was parked on even had speed bumps so god knows how they managed to smack it at such high speed.

I think this is one of the major drawbacks of living in London and seems to happen in most places, not just Devonshire Road.