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Texas Car / Permit: Parking & Stopping practice test
Legal and illegal parking, colored curbs, distances from hydrants and crossings, and how to park safely on hills.
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1. Texas law prohibits parking within how many feet of a crosswalk at an intersection?
Correct answer: 20 feet
You may not park within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection. Parking closer blocks the view of drivers and pedestrians and can hide people who are trying to cross.
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Parking
2. You have to leave your car on the pavement of a rural highway because there is nowhere off the road to put it. Besides leaving room for others to get by, you must make sure that:
Correct answer: It can be seen from 200 feet away in each direction
A vehicle stopped on the traveled surface outside a business or residential district has to be visible for 200 feet in each direction, and after dark its parking lights or dimmed headlights must be left burning.
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Parking
3. Texas keeps parked vehicles clear of the driveway entrance to a fire station by at least:
Correct answer: 20 feet
You may not park or stand within 20 feet of that entrance, and directly across the street from it the clear zone runs to 75 feet, so crews can pull out and turn.
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Parking
4. The diagonally striped area painted beside a space reserved for drivers with disabilities is there to:
Correct answer: Give room for a wheelchair lift or ramp, so no vehicle may park there
Those stripes are working room for a lift or a ramp, not an extra spot. Parking in them, or in the striped strip in front of a business entrance next to such a space, is prohibited.
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Parking
5. When you finish parking parallel to a curb, your tires should be within about:
Correct answer: 18 inches of the curb
Park within about 18 inches of the curb. Parking too far out leaves your car sticking into the traffic lane and can earn a ticket.
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Parking
6. The closest you may leave a parked vehicle to the nearest rail at a railroad crossing is:
Correct answer: 50 feet
Parking within 50 feet of the closest rail is prohibited whether or not anyone is in the car, so that nothing blocks the view down the tracks or sits where a train will pass.
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Parking
7. If you must leave a vehicle parked on an unlighted highway overnight, you should:
Correct answer: Leave the parking lights, or the headlights on low beam, turned on
Parking lights, or headlights turned down to low beam, mark the car for anyone who comes along in the dark. Leaving it completely unlit turns it into an obstacle nobody sees in time.
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Parking
8. Before you walk away from a parked car, Texas law requires you to:
Correct answer: Shut off the engine, lock the ignition, take the key, and set the brake
A vehicle left standing has to have its motor off, its ignition locked, the key removed, and the brake set. A remote starter changes only the engine part of that rule; the key still has to be in the car before anyone drives it.
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Parking
9. You may not park within how many feet of a fire hydrant in Texas?
Correct answer: 15 feet
Parking is prohibited within 15 feet of a fire hydrant so firefighters can reach it quickly in an emergency.
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Parking
10. When you park on the approach to a stop sign, yield sign, or flashing signal placed at the side of the road, how far back must you stay?
Correct answer: 30 feet
Thirty feet of the approach is kept clear so that drivers coming up behind can see the sign or signal in time to obey it.
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Parking
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