>Anything that takes attention away from driving increases danger.

parking takes attention away from driving, and as a result the danger drops.

Huh?

Parking is a subset of “driving”. When you are parking you are also still driving by most legal and practical definitions.

Once you have completed parking you are no longer driving, you are parked, that is the point at which the danger drops.

Parking itself though, is still driving, and is also when a significant number of minor and major collisions occur. Parking is so dangerous that we design many parking areas specifically to be durable to minor impacts as well as protect from parking mishaps. Bollards, curbs, concrete barriers, planters and other features are all placed to help lessen the dangers of parking.