DAYTON, Ohio — The National Assembly of Parallel Parkers convened an emergency hearing Tuesday to review a Saturday-evening incident in which a local man, 34, slid a mid-size sedan into a space barely larger than the sedan itself in a single, uninterrupted motion, in full view of 61 patio diners.

Witnesses confirmed there was no reverse-forward-reverse correction, no tire-on-curb contact, and no moment of hesitation in which the driver rolled down the window to ask a pedestrian, “Am I good?”

“He just did it,” said Marguerite Vasquez-Holloway, a witness who had been nursing a spritz. “Nobody even had time to feel superior to him.”

The hearing, held in a Ramada conference room chosen for its proximity to a notoriously unforgiving two-hour metered zone, drew more than 400 delegates, many of whom arrived early and then circled the building for 25 minutes.

Opening testimony came from Dr. Alan Pruitt-Kessler, senior fellow in Curbside Humility at the Institute for Applied Bumper Contact. Pruitt-Kessler told the panel that a first-attempt park of this quality occurs naturally about once per 11,000 years, or roughly the same frequency as a driver correctly guessing which of two lanes will move.

“We have to consider the possibility that this was a fluke,” he said. “A gust of wind, a favorable camber, a deity with a soft spot for Dayton. What we cannot do is consider the alternative.”

The alternative, several delegates argued, is that the man meant it.

“Nobody parks like that unless they want to be seen parking like that,” said Delegate Ronald Fitch, a 41-year veteran who has not attempted a space smaller than a loading dock since 2009. “That wasn’t a parking maneuver. That was a toast.”

“He didn’t even look relieved. You’re supposed to look relieved. He got out and checked his phone.”

The testimony turned emotional when Linda Okafor-Brandt, 58, described her own record of 14 attempts on a single block in 2017, an effort she said ended with her parking in a different county. “I think about that space every day,” she said. “Why does he get the space, and I get the lesson?”

Defenders of the driver were few. One delegate suggested the man might simply be talented, a theory that was ruled out of order by acclamation.

Attempts to reach the driver were unsuccessful. A reporter who visited his home found his car parked outside, again flush against the curb, with what witnesses described as “an uncomfortable amount of margin” on both ends.

By evening, the Assembly had issued a nonbinding resolution declaring the event “statistically permitted but morally unresolved.” It also proposed a series of remedies, including a requirement that all successful parkers wait 90 seconds before exiting the vehicle, and a ceremonial second attempt for the sake of the audience.

Delegates then adjourned and spent roughly 40 minutes trying to leave the lot, which was parked in on all sides by each other.

The driver is expected to appear at a follow-up session in October, provided he can find a space, which sources close to the Assembly say he “almost certainly will.”