My dad said you don’t learn to drive by banging fenders...
Almost 50 years of driving and NO accidents.
I told my darling children that there are meta-laws, senor laws in any endeavor that all laws flow from.
For the vehicle code, the meta-law is don't hit anything.
Everything in the vehicle code flows from this. Don't hit anything. Don't even look like you're going to hit anything. Don't make someone else hit anything, etc.
At all times know where the edges of your car end and the rest of the universe begins.
When my son asked how you know the extent of your car, I simply said 'by bumping into things...'