Driver's License Test Prep
Pennsylvania Practice Parking

The manual prohibits parking within how many feet of a fire hydrant?

  1. A.
    20 feet
  2. B.
    25 feet
  3. C.
    15 feet Correct
  4. D.
    10 feet
The Why

The answer is "15 feet"

Fire hydrants get a fifteen-foot exclusion zone so a hose crew can reach the hydrant without dragging equipment around a parked bumper. Learners often confuse this with the twenty-foot crosswalk rule or the thirty-foot stop-sign rule listed just above and below it in the same section.

Why the others miss

The traps in the wrong answers

A. 20 feet

Twenty feet is the crosswalk exclusion, not the fire-hydrant one. This answer swaps the fire-hydrant figure for the 20-foot crosswalk figure listed on the same page.

B. 25 feet

Twenty-five feet is not a Pennsylvania parking distance. This answer assumes a wider buffer around emergency equipment than the manual actually sets.

D. 10 feet

Ten feet is not any of the parking distances the manual lists. This answer rounds the 15-foot fire-hydrant distance down to a smaller, more familiar number.

The Rule

This question tests your knowledge of Parking in Pennsylvania. Source: Pennsylvania Driver Manual, "Learning to Drive: Parking," p.53..

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