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Kentucky 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. Who may lawfully use a designated handicapped parking space?
Correct answer: Only a vehicle showing an official permit and carrying a disabled person
Accessible spaces are reserved for vehicles displaying the official permit and transporting a person with a disability; misuse brings a fine.
2. What is a basic rule for making sure your parked vehicle is not a hazard?
Correct answer: Always park in a designated area
You are responsible for parking where the vehicle is not a hazard, which means using designated parking areas.
Source: Kentucky Driver Manual — Parking
3. If your vehicle breaks down on the highway, about how far behind it should you place warning flares?
Correct answer: About two hundred to three hundred feet
Set emergency flares roughly 200 to 300 feet behind the disabled vehicle to give approaching drivers time to change lanes.
Source: Kentucky Driver Manual — Vehicle Breakdown & Emergency Signals
4. What does the law require when you leave your parked vehicle?
Correct answer: Turn off the engine and remove the key
You must shut off the engine and take the key when you leave the vehicle, and locking it is always wise.
5. How are many no-parking areas indicated to drivers?
Correct answer: By signs or painted curb markings
Watch for signs and colored curb markings that prohibit or limit parking.
6. After parallel parking, which side is safest to exit from?
Correct answer: The curb side
It is safest to get out on the curb side; if you must use the street side, check for traffic first.
7. When you park on a hill with a curb, how should you position your front wheels?
Correct answer: So the vehicle would roll into the curb if it started to move
Aim the wheels so that any movement brings a tire against the curb, keeping the vehicle from rolling into traffic.
8. After pulling a disabled vehicle off the road, what should you turn on to warn others?
Correct answer: Your emergency flashers
Switch on the emergency flashers and, if possible, raise the hood so other drivers see the vehicle is disabled.
Source: Kentucky Driver Manual — Vehicle Breakdown & Emergency Signals
9. Once you finish parallel parking, how should you secure the vehicle?
Correct answer: Set the parking brake and shift to park
Set the parking brake and place the transmission in park (or reverse in a manual) so the vehicle cannot move.
10. The manual advises you to lock your vehicle when leaving it under what circumstances?
Correct answer: Every time, even for a short absence
Always lock your vehicle when you leave it, even for a short time.
11. You must park on a hill where there is no curb. What should you do with the wheels?
Correct answer: Turn them so the vehicle would roll off the road if it moved
With no curb, turn the wheels so a rolling vehicle would head off the road rather than into traffic.
12. At a stop light or sign, how close to the crosswalk should you stop to help a blind pedestrian?
Correct answer: Within about five feet of the crosswalk
Stop within about five feet of the crosswalk, unless there is an advanced stop bar, so a blind pedestrian can hear your vehicle as a guide.
Source: Kentucky Driver Manual — Blind Pedestrian Right-of-Way
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