{"id":121167,"date":"2025-09-07T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121167\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:07:10","slug":"moment-driver-tries-to-park-tiny-car-in-huge-space-it-all-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121167\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment driver tries to park tiny car in huge space \u2013 it all goes wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

A motorist has been caught making a mess of parking<\/a> their tiny Smart car in a funny video shared on social media. The clip shows the Smart car driver gently reversing while attempting to parallel park their vehicle<\/a> into a massive space on the side of a road.<\/p>\n

However, the road user quickly realises they have turned in too sharply and quickly decides to start again.\u00a0The driver quickly adjusts and attempts the same move further down the road before quickly realising they are in the wrong area and aborts.\u00a0After a few more attempts, the road user attempts one final swing<\/a>, miscalculating the move and ending up on the field next to the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eventually, the vehicle ends up pointing in the wrong direction with the driver seen thrashing at the steering wheel through the glass windscreen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The footage appears to have been obtained from a CCTV camera on a house located across the road, with the clip receiving thousands of likes on social media site X.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Many road users have had their say on the incident, with many calling out for the driver for making the wrong move.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The parking space was so large that the driver could have simply pulled up and stopped the vehicle instead of attempting the parallel park manoeuvre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

@Filipkerlberg_ posted: \u201cDamn, should have bought a smaller car.\u201d<\/p>\n

@larryshampoe added: \u201cI wonder how many clowns came out of that car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another X user reacted: \u201cAnd this person is allowed to drive on public streets!\u201d<\/p>\n

@HW_Helser said: \u201cThis has to be a joke. She didn’t even need to parallel park.\u00a0 Just pull in front of the truck to the curb and park.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another X user reacted: \u201cThere really are people in this world who are born with no sense of direction and are completely lost. Some people lose their sense of direction the moment they get in a car.\u201d<\/p>\n

@CurtisForrester stressed: \u201cIn Greece I saw that they’d just back straight into the spot. You could fit like 42 of them in that space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorist has been caught making a mess of parking their tiny Smart car in a funny video…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57752,57760,32964,57756,57759,59,57755,26655,57757,57758,57753,57754,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-121167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-car-parking","tag-car-parking-news","tag-cars-section","tag-driver-parking","tag-funny-parking-video","tag-gb","tag-parallel-parking","tag-parking","tag-parking-space","tag-reverse-parking","tag-smart-car","tag-smart-car-parking","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}