Oh, I agree, he probably did get charged with something like that. I'm thinking that when the van driver looked before he moved, he didn't realize that the black car in the distance was coming at him at an insane speed, so he thought he'd have enough time to get into the lane and be out of the way long before the car got there. As he was moving, he realized his mistake. There was oncoming traffic to the right, so he couldn't sit in that lane, so he tried to squeeze onto the - I think they call it "zebra pavement(?)" - but there wasn't quite enough room.