Box-truck driver tries, but misses, on tight turn into mall lot — Preventable or not?

This video is an adaptation of a scenario from CCJ's Preventable or Not manuals. It is presented via a partnership between CCJ and Instructional Technologies. Awaiting to cross a busy in-town highway to turn into a mall parking lot to make a delivery, box-truck driver John Doe thought a pickup driver had given him enough space to proceed with his turn. In a quick attempt to wheel into the lot, however, Doe clipped the pickup's front corner. Was this crash preventable or not?

[lky]

Take it wide, no matter how good of a driver you are, wheelbase can be your worst enemy

[hauolipeelua]

I let that driver go first then go lol

[stevedavenport]

Or find another entrance...or go around the block and enter from the other dir3ction.

[BudsCartoon]

But the truck was back up to the original position when the collision happened

[btaylor]

Why did the pickup truck start to move forward after backing up

[brokedreams]

It happens. Most people don’t train you nowadays anyways. I learned through property damage now I be whippin it!

[TheMorsonFamily]

Man that little ass truck and you can't make that turn lol

[jwill]

Preventable, never let another motorist make a move you know is tight.

[mikemesser]

I make much tighter turns than that every day. Can’t avoid them, but I can take steps to make sure I have room. I have to get around shuttle drivers who pull up too far all the time and chew them out for doing so. I arrive the same time every day and they know better.

The sad thing is, I can see where they have been hit from doing so before.

[Zenas]

Wave the to the pickup driver to go first, that way you will have more room. Once they are gone and the entrance is clear, then you can turn.

[OGYouTubeEnjoyer]

lmao how can he not get his truck in there? I take my truck down the stupidest shit almost every day.

[kev]

I had a buss not see me in a blind spot and cut me off so I had to try go around and it t-boned me.

[kll_z]

Why didn’t the pickup truck just go first

[chilidog]

Turn tighter and wait for a proper break in traffic.

[jasonromero]

Do you have or can you recommend any good backing videos?

[carljshipley]

Reading title, I'd say preventable. Like these videos