Similar thing happened to me awhile ago, i was walking down a fairly narrow pavement when a van suddenly pulled across to park. Luckily i noticed it coming and was able to stop, if i had carried on walking i would most likely have been squashed between the wall and the van. Then he decided to start reversing and i had to quickly jump backwards to avoid it. I had to walk in the road to eventually get around it when the driver had a go at for me being in the way when he was trying to park. It was even double yellows on that road