Road Markings
Lane lines, edge lines, crosswalks, and pavement markings.
Road Markings rules in South Carolina follow the federal framework with state-specific limits, distances, and exceptions. The practice questions below are drawn from the South Carolina driver handbook, so they track the state's own rules.
Road Markings questions, South Carolina edition.
Each question links through to a full explanation, the rule it tests, and a citation back to the manual.
- The blue wheelchair symbol painted on a parking space marks the space as what? →
- A white bicycle symbol painted on the pavement next to a solid white lane line marks the lane as what? →
- The word BIKE is painted in white inside a travel lane. What does this pavement legend identify? →
- A yellow center line has a solid line on your side and a broken line on the side used by oncoming traffic. What does this require of you? →
- A broken white line runs along the right edge of the roadway between the through lane and an exit ramp. What does it permit a driver to do? →
- A broken white line separates your lane from the lane to your left, both traveling in the same direction. What does this marking permit? →
- A single broken yellow line runs down the center of a two-way roadway. What does it permit a driver to do? →
- The word BUS is painted in white in a travel lane. What tells you who may use the lane and during which hours? →
- A series of wide white bars is painted across the road, parallel to the direction of traffic, like piano keys. What does this marking indicate? →
- A lane line becomes a series of closely spaced short white dots through an interchange. What does this dotted pattern tell you about the lane? →
- Two broken yellow lines border a center lane with overhead lane-control signals. What authorizes a driver to enter that lane? →
- Two parallel solid white lines separate lanes traveling in the same direction. What do they require of a driver in one of those lanes? →
- What do two solid yellow lines painted down the center of a two-way road require of a driver? →
- Solid green pavement bordered by white lines identifies what? →
- What does a lane with this pavement marking indicate? →
- Traffic on the far side of the intersection has stopped as you reach a white KEEP CLEAR legend painted across your lane. What does the marking require of you? →
- What does this crosswalk require of a driver approaching it? →
- What does this lane-reduction arrow require you to do? →
- A lane is marked on the pavement with a white arrow that points both left and right. What does this require of a driver in that lane? →
- A white left-turn arrow is painted in the lane you are driving in as you approach an intersection. What does it require? →
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