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New Hampshire Car / Permit: Parking & Stopping practice test
Legal and illegal parking, colored curbs, distances from hydrants and crossings, and how to park safely on hills.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. While easing into a parallel parking space, how far back should you go before straightening the vehicle into the spot?
Correct answer: Until your front bumper is even with the rear bumper of the car you are parking behind
The manual has the driver reverse slowly, turning the wheel briskly, until their front bumper lines up with the rear bumper of the car ahead of the space.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Parallel Parking
2. You must leave your car partly on a rural highway. What clear view does the manual require in each direction?
Correct answer: Two hundred feet
If pulling completely off the pavement proves impossible, the vehicle must still leave a clear view of two hundred feet each way and room for others to get by.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Parking
3. What happens to a driver who parks in an access aisle beside an accessible space?
Correct answer: A fine, which grows for each subsequent offense
A first offense brings a fine, and each later offense brings a larger one; the law also lets a person with a walking disability send the local police department a photo backed by a sworn statement.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Parking
4. Which of these places does the manual list as illegal for parking, even with no sign posted?
Correct answer: Alongside another vehicle that is already parked
The list of unmarked prohibitions includes double parking beside another parked vehicle, along with sidewalks, intersections, crosswalks, bridges and tunnels.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Parking
5. How close to a crosswalk at an intersection may a vehicle legally park?
Correct answer: No closer than twenty feet
The rule keeps parked vehicles at least twenty feet back from a crosswalk at an intersection, so drivers and pedestrians can see one another.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Parking
6. What does the manual warn drivers never to do in a toll plaza?
Correct answer: Back up or turn around in the lane
Backing up or reversing direction in a toll lane is forbidden, as is stepping out of the vehicle, and drivers must obey the speed posted within the plaza.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Toll Roads
7. How far from a stop sign or traffic signal must a driver keep when parking?
Correct answer: Thirty feet
The manual keeps parked vehicles thirty feet back from a stop or yield sign and from any traffic signal, so the device stays visible to approaching drivers.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Parking
8. What does the manual say about parking near the driveway of a fire station?
Correct answer: Twenty feet from the entrance, and seventy-five feet if parked across the street
A driver must stay twenty feet back from the fire station driveway entrance, and seventy-five feet away when parking on the far side of the street.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Parking
9. You are backing out of a perpendicular parking space. What does the manual tell you to do first?
Correct answer: Check all directions, then back straight until your front bumper clears the car beside you
The driver checks every direction using mirrors and head checks, then reverses straight until the front bumper is clear of the vehicle parked alongside before turning the wheel.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Perpendicular and Angle Parking
10. How far from the nearest rail of a railroad crossing must a driver stay when parking?
Correct answer: Fifty feet
The manual lists fifty feet from the closest rail as the minimum, one of the illegal parking places that hold even where nothing is marked.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Parking
11. What is the crosshatched striped area beside an accessible parking space for?
Correct answer: Space for a person with a walking disability to open a door or use a lift or ramp
That access aisle, striped in yellow or white, gives a person with a walking disability the room to open a door fully and to work a lift or ramp safely.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Parking
12. How close to a fire hydrant may a vehicle be parked in New Hampshire?
Correct answer: No closer than fifteen feet
Parking is barred within fifteen feet of a hydrant, whether or not the curb is painted or a sign is posted.
Source: New Hampshire Driver's Manual — Section 7, Parking
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