Is there a "Dead End" sign at the entrance to your street?
If there's not, the driver might have no idea he should not venture down your street and should not be held totally responsible except that he should have known his truck well enough to know he couldn't negotiate the circle. At that point he should have backed his truck out with the help of Community Watch, preferably.
If there is a "Dead End" sign, then it was the truck drivers fault pure and simple for not assessing the situation properly.
I was a tractor-trailer driver for a common carrier for 40+ years and have made innumerable residential deliveries.
On a delivery like yours I would have stopped (if there was a dead end sign) and walked down the street to access the situation or backed down the street. If the situation revealed that I couldn't access your home safely I would have informed you that I was leaving and other delivery arrangements would have to be made.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)
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