Parking on a highway — Mississippi Permit Test
Parking on a highway on the Mississippi permit test — 6 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Outside of business or residential districts, you must park off the roadway.
A car stopped in a fast lane is easy to hit before other drivers see it.
Outside of business or residential districts, you must park off the roadway.
If you must park along a highway, leave at least 20 feet for other vehicles to get by, if possible.
Without room to pass, other cars must cross into oncoming traffic to get around you.
If possible, leave at least twenty feet for other vehicles to get by.
When parked along a highway, park so you can be seen from at least 200 feet in both directions.
Drivers who see your car late have no time to slow down or steer around it.
Park so you can be seen from at least two hundred feet in both directions.
If you park along a highway at night, leave your parking lights or emergency flashers on.
A dark car on the side of a road at night is nearly impossible to see until it is too late.
Leave your parking lights or emergency flashers on if it is night.
Parking on a blind curve or in any other potentially dangerous place is illegal; you may be arrested and your vehicle towed.
Cars coming around a blind curve cannot see a parked car in time to stop.
Parking on a blind curve or in any other potentially dangerous place is illegal.
If your vehicle breaks down, you will not be arrested, but you should move it out of the way as quickly as possible.
A broken-down car left in a bad spot is still a hazard for every driver who comes by.
If your vehicle breaks down, you will not be arrested; but you should move it out of the way as quickly as possible.
On the test
Outside business or residential districts, where must you park?
Off the roadway. A car stopped in a fast lane is easy to hit before other drivers see it. Mississippi Driver's License Manual, p.60: “Outside of business or residential districts, you must park off the roadway.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Mississippi Driver's License Manual, published by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MS.pdf (Mississippi Driver's License Manual, Revised December 2024, Mississippi Department of Public Safety, Driver Service Bureau, retrieved 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MS.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MS-exam.html (31 Miss. Code. R. 1-2.3 as reproduced by the Legal Information Institute, retrieved 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json under examSource)
- https://www.driverservicebureau.dps.ms.gov/Drivers/Learners_Permit (read 2026-10-04; links the manual, states no count or mark)
- https://www.sos.ms.gov/adminsearch/ACCode/00000383c.pdf (Title 31 Part 1, Driver Services Administrative Code; Rule 2.3 item 9: "A grade of 80% will be required on any and all tests issued for a Temporary Permit.")
- https://www.sos.ms.gov/adminsearch/ACProposed/00013644b.pdf (the 2006 filing whose "30 question" sentence the 2013 and 2014 re-filings struck; not used)