You plan to park near a city intersection that has a marked curb. How close to the curb line of the intersecting street does the manual let you park?
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A.
15 feet.
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B.
25 feet. Correct
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C.
100 feet.
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D.
400 feet.
The answer is "25 feet."
The manual keeps you at least 25 feet back from the curb line of an intersecting street. The trap is A: drivers who skim the bullet and keep only the smaller 15-foot figure are applying the no-curb case to a curbed intersection.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. 15 feet.
Applies the figure the manual reserves for intersections without a curb. Reads the no-curb clause as the whole rule, carrying its 15-foot figure to a curbed intersection the bullet handles separately.
C. 100 feet.
Carries over the 100-foot distance from the rule about staying back from a stopped emergency vehicle. Borrows the stay-back distance from the move-over rule and uses it as a parking buffer at an ordinary intersection.
D. 400 feet.
Carries over the 400-foot distance for parking near a fire outside city limits. Picks the largest number a reader scanning the same bulleted list remembers, treating the fire-outside-city rule as the intersection rule.
This question tests your knowledge of Parking in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Parking: Places where you should not park," p.56..
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