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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would say Car A, especially if they didn't signal. I get that B may have been impatient, but if it takes too long to parallel park in that spot, then that spot is not for you.

And when you parallel park, you still have to be aware of moving vehicles around you. Your attention should not be laser focused on parallel parking - you must multitask your awareness.

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But we don't know that Car A was taking too long.  Car A might have been quite efficient, but Car B attempted to pass before they were done.  And I don't see what Car A could do.  Stopping mid-parking doesn't get them out of the lane.  [/quote]

Stopping mid park early on when they see Car B is not stopping and is instead approaching might get Car B to stop passing...it's possible Car B made an incorrect calculation on the speed at which Car A was parking--perhaps Car A WAS an efficient parallel parker and Car B figured Car A would be out of the lane space enough by the time Car B got there, but for some reason Car A slowed down a bit and thus, an impact. If Car A had paid attention to the cars around them (which they should be, when parking) they could have seen that there was someone coming up behind them too fast for their liking and they needed to act defensively in some way.

Car B is still wrong, but just trying to come up with a logical explanation. [/quote]

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