When should drivers drive across or park on a median?

1. When they need to rest.
2. When they need to make a phone call.
3. When they want to turn around.
4. They should never drive into a median. ✓

Answer: D. They should never drive into a median.

Drivers should never drive into a median, so there is no situation where crossing or parking on one is allowed.

Why this is the answer

The Florida handbook's limited access highway reminders state plainly: never drive across or park on the median. A median is a barrier separating traffic, and the handbook also lists medians among the fixed obstructions marked with yellow or white diagonal stripes, and says it is illegal to drive through areas with pavement markings for safety zones. Nothing in the handbook creates an exception for resting, calling, or turning around, so the rule holds in every case described here.

Why the other answers are wrong

• A. When they need to rest. — Needing rest is not a reason the handbook allows for entering a median; it says never to drive across or park on one.
• B. When they need to make a phone call. — Making a phone call is not an exception listed anywhere in the passages, and parking on a median is specifically prohibited.
• C. When they want to turn around. — Turning around is not given as a permitted reason to cross a median; the rule against driving across or parking on it has no such exception.

Remember it

Treat a median like a wall, not a parking spot or a shortcut lane, no matter why you want to stop.