Scraped van which was illegally parked on corner

Yeah, it was defo one of those moments when I would’ve benefitted from taking a step back.

I’d already squeezed past twice whilst looking for the drop, but on third occasion there were a couple of uber drivers parked opposite him making it more of a bottleneck. I wish I’d just sat and waited now but in city centre traffic it’s easy to let the pressure get to you - had a good few cars behind and was backing up the traffic flow.

On a separate note, I find it really hard to judge the tailswing on 26t vehicles when looking in the mirror - it can be two feet clear and look really close. I think an hour driving around a rec yard in an old wagon which I could bump would really help because if I knew exactly what “too close” looked like it’d be easier to judge from a point of reference.