One late night this past September, while pulling into a parking spot in a poorly lit lot on the far side of the East Campus Apartments footbridge, the front right wheel of my Tacoma hit a deep rut in the asphalt that jerked my steering wheel into the vehicle parked in the adjacent spot.
While the accident was, from a legal standpoint, my fault, there was nothing out of the ordinary about my parking — I always prefer to pull in because my depth perception suits that strategy over backing into a spot.
Had the rut not been there in the first place, I would have parked with no issue. To be completely honest, I do partially blame LSU…