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08/11/2024 at 6:43pm
Location: Derby.
Outfit: Karsten 350+Awnings
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I'm with Colin on the reversing in.
The only (usual) place I drive in forward is at work, as the bays are at 45 degrees, not 90 degrees, so driving in is "less tight", and vision upon exit is fine. (It also helps with additional room to open the driver's door, as my Off-side front corner is now tight up to steel railings, and my door swings past the next door front left corner!)
Next time you're wandering from the parked car to the store entrance, check out how many forward parking cars are central and parallel to the bay markings! It won't be many!
Many moons ago, we sat in our parked car in McD's, and sat and watched a car drive into a space, scrape their front corner down the side of the car next door, scrape it again when they immediately drove back out, and buggered off!
Sadly, dash cams and mobile phones weren't common back then. We did take the reg number and passed it on to the damaged car owner, but obviously we had no proof.
(I do concede that it is likely that someone, somewhere, has witnessed a collision by a car reversing in!)
Quite a number of (business) sites we visit nowadays insist on reverse parking only, by order of their H&S Gestapo. For one, peripheral vision "can be" severely restricted when reversing out from between cars (or larger) either side. When you arrive at the parking bay, you should already be aware of what is all around you, making reversing in an all round simpler task.
I'd also add that reversing onto your driveway is more common for very good reason... unless you have one of those swanky semi-circle driveways with separate in and out gates! 
I was gonna add that lorries always reverse up to loading docks... but then realised the lorry loading doors are at the back, so forget that one! 
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