Your vehicle is on the opposite side of the street from a fire station entrance. How far from the entrance must you stay per the Texas manual?
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A.
75 feet Correct
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B.
20 feet
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C.
30 feet
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D.
50 feet
The answer is "75 feet"
The Texas manual sets seventy-five feet as the parking distance opposite a fire station entrance. Twenty feet is the trap: that is the distance the same sentence gives for the fire station's own side of the driveway, and a driver taking the first number in the clause carries it over to the opposite side without checking that the sentence continues.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. 20 feet
Twenty feet is the same-side rule for the fire station's own driveway entrance. The first number in the sentence gets grabbed before the opposite-side clause is read.
C. 30 feet
Thirty feet is the approach-to-stop-sign rule, not the fire station opposite-side rule. A number from earlier in the same paragraph gets slotted in and misapplied.
D. 50 feet
Fifty feet is the railroad-crossing rule from the 'do not park' list on the same page. The railroad figure printed nearby crowds out the fire-station figure.
This question tests your knowledge of Parking in Texas. Source: Texas Driver Manual, "Do Not Park or Stand a Vehicle," p.42..
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