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LanekindThe Highway CodeWaiting and parkingRule 252

Waiting and parking · Parking at night

Rule 252: Parking on hills

Parking on hills. If you park on a hill you should:

park close to the kerb and apply the handbrake firmly
select a forward gear and turn your steering wheel away from the kerb when facing uphill
select reverse gear and turn your steering wheel towards the kerb when facing downhill
use ‘park’ if your car has an automatic gearbox.

Rule 252: Turn your wheels away from the kerb when parking facing uphill. Turn them towards the kerb when parking facing downhill

Source note (app): Rule 252 refreshed from the Department for Transport’s GOV.UK Highway Code, checked 2026-09-06. This corrects the imported passage only; the rest of the archive has not been refreshed. © Crown copyright. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Licence details: The National Archives, Open Government Licence v3.0. No government endorsement is implied.

In the Highway Code, MUST and MUST NOT identify legal requirements. Advice using should, should not, do or do not can still be used as evidence in court proceedings under the Traffic Acts to establish liability. The introduction explains this distinction.

The rules either side

The Code reads in order, and each of these names the rule it goes to rather than saying only ‘next’.

Rule 251: Parking in fogThe rule before this one Rule 253: Prohibited vehiclesThe rule after this one · Motorways

Parking at night

5 rules

The rules the Code files beside this one, in its order.

Rule 248: You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of…the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space.Rule 249: All vehicles MUST display parking lights when parked on a road or a…lay-by on a road with a speed limit greater than 30 mph (48 km/h).Rule 250: Cars, goods vehicles not exceeding 2500 kg laden weight, invalid…carriages, motorcycles and pedal cycles may be parked without lights on a road (or lay-by) with a speed limit of 30 mph…Rule 251: Parking in fogIt is especially dangerous to park on the road in fog. If it is unavoidable, leave your parking lights or sidelights on.Rule 252: Parking on hillsIf you park on a hill you should: park close to the kerb and apply the handbrake firmly select a forward gear and turn…

Waiting and parking

Rules 238 to 252

The other groups in this part of the Code, and the rest of it.

General (rule 238)1 rule Parking9 rules Parking at night5 rules

All of Waiting and parkingRules 238 to 252 on one page Road signs and markingsEvery sign this rule refers to, each one on a page you can link to.