A woman driver was filmed taking seven minutes and more than 18 manoeuvres to parallel park in a double-bay space, the Daily Mail reports.

The spectacle in Guildford high street, Surrey, was caught on camera by property maintenance director Lee Smith at 2pm last week as he sat in his van eating lunch.

Lee captured the woman's attempts to navigate the green Renault Clio into the space and provided a running commentary from inside his own vehicle.

In between bursts of laughing Lee offered instructions on how to park while his work colleague suggested she needed binoculars to help her out.

Lee, 36, said: 'It's some of the funniest stuff I've seen on the road. If she'd done the manoeuvre once or twice that would be fine but this was for seven minutes.'

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