Thanks - I had already seen that article - but I didn't think I could argue that comparing angle parking to curb parking was sufficiently similar to head-in vs. head out parking.
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It's my experience too but as a scientist I've learned not to depend JUST on experience - nothing beats hard data.
--->my experience is that it IS much safer to back into 90d spaces than back out
Interesting - the village where I live also has such an ordinance - I'd like to see it...
To ACtrafficengr :
I'm not so concerned about angled parking - I'm just talking about reversing into a 90 degree parking spot as opposed to driving in head first and then having to reverse out.
I am definitely assumeone that one knows how to reverse into a parking spot - if you can't reverse...
Thanks - however the only reference I found there was to "ANGLE PARKING ISSUES REVISITED, 2001" which is one of the few articles I had already found (indeed before I found THIS forum). It doesn't really provide statistics for head-in vs head-out parking accidents.
My sense is that reversing out...
Uhmm....not exactly sure how one gets information from Seattle or Wash DC - (call 555-1212 - connect me to Seattle please :-)
Aren't there any studies published in peer-reviewed journals that address this kind of thing?
Thanks,
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I'm trying to find some information (statistics) showing which method of parking is the safest and which is the most dangerous. I'm particularly interested in head-in vs back-in parking in village parking lots, typically those built to support local shopping.
Although I've found some casual...
