Parking rules

Very often, a motorist creates a situation where he can easily drive, but parking rules are quite difficult for him.

Beginners sometimes find it difficult to distinguish concepts such as stopping a vehicle and parking it.

Even those who are not the first year sitting behind the wheel of the "iron horse", do not always correctly determine where you can and where you can not stop. Evidence of this - the numerous cars stopped in the streets, wherever it is.

In order to correctly differentiate the parking rules , you need to clearly distinguish between what it differs from the parking lot.

First, these maneuvers take a different time: if the standing process lasts no more than five minutes, then this is only a stop, if more - then this is the parking lot covered by article 1.2 of the Road Traffic Regulations, namely the parking rules of the car.

The main criteria for these rules are:

- Parking the car you need to produce only on the roadside, and if there is none - on the roadway, as close to its edge. If the distance to the edge of the road is more than a meter, then this will be considered a violation.

- Park the car in parallel to the edge of the road, even a small angle - a deviation from the norm.

- You can not put the car close to a public transport stop, near the intersection, turn and at the points of entry or exit. This can create an emergency situation.

- Even if the driver is in a hurry and stops for a minute, it is forbidden to leave the car in the middle of the road, especially in big cities, including just in case the emergency situation. Such grief-driver at best is threatened with just fine, but very often such "iron horses" are towed out with the help of a tow truck to the penalty area.

- The parking rules prohibit parking at stops, crossings, bridges, overpasses. You should always pay attention to signs that prohibit or allow parking. In many megacities in winter in certain places parking on the sidelines is allowed on even or odd days, which is due to the work of snow removal or other equipment.

One of the places of increased danger for cars is a large parking lot. It is necessary to take into account many factors, for example, the passage of other vehicles, parking conditions, leaving the parking lot, the correctness of stopping other cars, the proximity to neighboring cars.

When parking at a shopping center, parking rules provide for a certain distance between cars, so that when loading purchases, do not damage neighboring cars.

The most unpredictable permitted parking spaces are parking lots at the entrances, near buildings, at pedestrian curbs. Always you need to at least skim the space around, because there is always a danger of falling on your car advertising stands, icicles, construction debris, old trees.

In addition, the driver must learn the rules of parking the car in reverse, as well as to work out the skill of arrival in the parking pockets. Today it can be learned in driving schools in just a few days.

There are certain rules for parking in the yards of residential buildings. And if the driver wants to just start the engine and go to work, and not run around the apartment building in search of the owner of the interfering car, then you just need to specify those places where you can freely stop until the morning.

You can not park on such areas where there are green lawns or plantations, as well as on sidewalks or in places where it is possible to obstruct the passage to a residential structure.

Currently, in many large cities, there are paid parking lots where you can stop your vehicle for a certain time. However, as a rule, such parking spaces are not responsible for the safety of the car and therefore are not particularly popular with drivers.