When you're pulling into a street, and your vision is obstructed, the following may happen:
a) if you're a careful driver, you inch out very gradually until you can see what's going on. This gives people coming down the street time to react.
b) if you're a clueless idiot, you burst out into the middle of the lane, and hope that no one's there.

Look at the video. It was the back of his car that was all beat up, not just the front. That tells you something right there.