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Originally Posted by Aw Man
Just asking, does this mean when you leave your parking space that you are entering a drive lane going in the wrong direction?
If so, I'm assuming you have to make a very wide turn in order to drive out in the correct direction.
Over the past three years I've seen two fender benders result from similar pull thru parking. Once a woman turned too sharply scraping the side of her car against the rear end of the correctly parked car next to her. In the second incident a man made too wide of a turn and bumped in to the rear of a correctly parked car on the other side of the drive lane.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the type of parking you're describing and these two incidents don't relate at all.
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The problems you described can happen when the parking spots are marked at an angle, rather than straight perpendicular lines. I have no difficulty at all pulling out of an angled parking spot. I have been doing this for many years and I do pull out of the spot and go in the proper direction of the traffic. Fender benders happen because people can not gauge the size of their own vehicle.