Taking ‘diagonal parking’ a little too literally

The car that ended up on the sidewalk at West and Bethune Sts. in the West Village on Sunday afternoon Dec. 12 with its front end down against a tree and its rear end up 45 degrees against the Superior Ink luxury residential building got that way when a driver, identified in the New York Post as an off-duty police officer, swerved to avoid an accident. The driver sustained minor injuries.