When is it acceptable to park in a striped area next to a disabled parking spot?
- Never. ✓
- When you have a disability plate or parking placard.
- When all other parking spaces are full.
- When you are only parking for a couple minutes.
Answer: A. Never.
It is never acceptable to park in a striped area next to a disabled parking spot.
Why this is the answer
The Texas Driver Handbook tells drivers not to park in striped areas next to disabled parking spaces. It also says these striped areas are for wheelchair lifts. That means the space is set aside for lift access, not for parking a vehicle, even briefly. The passage gives no exception for a disability plate or placard, for full parking lots, or for short stops, so the safe and rule-based answer is that you do not park there.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. When you have a disability plate or parking placard. — A disability plate or placard relates to parking in a disabled parking space, but the striped area beside it is for wheelchair lifts, not for parking.
- C. When all other parking spaces are full. — A full parking lot does not change what the striped area is for; the handbook says not to park there.
- D. When you are only parking for a couple minutes. — Parking for only a couple of minutes is still parking, and the handbook does not allow parking in that striped area at all.
Remember it
Picture the stripes beside a disabled space as room for a wheelchair lift, not as extra parking.