Parking — South Carolina Permit Test

A vehicle with a disability plate or placard may use a disability space only when driven by or carrying the person named on its registration.

Using the placard without that person takes a space from someone who genuinely needs it.

Vehicles displaying a disability license plate or placard may park in designated spaces for people with disabilities, but only if that vehicle is driven by or transporting the person with the disability whose name is on the license plate registration or placard registration certificate.

When parking along a roadway, do not park more than 18 inches from the curb or edge of the pavement.

A car left further out sticks into the travel lane and becomes an obstruction for passing traffic.

Do not park more than 18 inches from the curb or edge of pavement.

Some parking restrictions are shown by colored curb markings, so check the curb as well as the signs.

A driver who only reads signs can park illegally beside a painted curb.

Some parking restrictions are indicated by colored curb markings.

Leaving a perpendicular or angle space, move straight back until your front bumper clears the vehicle parked beside you before turning the wheel.

Turning too early swings the front corner of your car into the car next to you.

Continue to check traffic and move straight back until your front bumper clears the vehicle parked beside you.

Entering a parallel space, back up until your front bumper is in line with the rear bumper of the car you are parking behind, then steer to center.

That point gives your front end room to swing in without clipping the car ahead.

Continue backing up until your front bumper is in line with the rear bumper of the vehicle you are parking behind.

Leaving a parallel space, move into the lane of traffic when your car's door clears the rear bumper of the vehicle parked ahead.

Pulling out too early hooks your front corner on the parked car ahead.

Move forward into the appropriate lane of traffic when the door of the vehicle clears the rear bumper of the vehicle parked ahead of you.

When may a car with a disability placard use a disability parking space?

Only when carrying the person named on it. Using the placard without that person takes a space from someone who genuinely needs it. South Carolina Driver's Manual, p.85: “Vehicles displaying a disability license plate or placard may park in designated spaces for people with disabilities, but only if that vehicle is driven by or transporting the person with the disability whose name is on the license plate registration or placard registration certificate.”