Parking Strategies

• Look for parking spaces with enough room for entering and exiting easily.
• Pay attention to signs, pavement markings, and local laws.
• Look for vehicles exiting parking spaces.
• Keep in mind some parking garages are cramped, or have specially marked parking spaces for smaller vehicles, and other reserved spaces.
• Avoid spaces at the end of parking areas which might cause your vehicle to stick out and be exposed to being hit.
• Avoid spaces near large vehicle because the size of these vehicles may block your vision when you are exiting.
• Avoid spaces next to poorly parked vehicles.
• Avoid areas with poor lighting for safety reasons.

WHERE Is Parking NOT allowed? 

• Right beside another parked vehicle but not in a lane (double parking)
• On crosswalks or sidewalks.
• In front of driveways not your own.
• Next to painted YELLOW curbs or where posted “NO Parking”
• In spaces marked “handicapped” or for disabled persons.
• On surface of the road away from the side where no curb present.
• Within 20 feet of an intersection.
• Within 15 feet of the entrance to a fire, ambulance, or Rescue squad station.
• Within 500 feet of where fire trucks or equipment are stopped answering an alarm.
• Within 50 feet of a railroad crossing.
• Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.