Buy Tires on Sale in San Antonio: But Not Until You’ve Read This Guide!

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1. For San Antonio drivers, it’s illegal to drive with a blood alcohol level over 0.8%. If you are stopped and breathalyzed and your blood alcohol level is 0.8% or over, you’re likely to be charged with DUI. First-time offenders are fined up to $2,000, face 72 to 180 hours in jail, and can have their license suspended for between 90 and 365 days.
2. Under SA law, motorists are banned from holding or using mobile phone devices in any way whilst driving. This includes checking or using a smartphone while temporarily stopping at traffic lights.
3. Texan law stipulates that drivers must turn their headlights on from 30 minutes after sunset until 30 minutes before sunrise.
4. Legally in Texas, headlights need to be turned on when visibility is less than 1,000 feet, including when it’s raining.
5. On rural roads, the speed limit is 70 miles per hour regardless of whether it's two-lanes, four-lanes, or a freeway.

1. On an intersection, sidewalk, crosswalk, or railroad track
2. In front of a driveway
3. Within 15 ft of a fire hydrant
4. Within 20 ft of a crosswalk
5. Within 30 ft of a yield sign, stop sign, or traffic signal
6. Double parking on a street

• Front side windows must allow more than 25% of light in
• Rear and backside windows can have any degree of tint film applied to them
• The windshield’s top 5 inches can have a 25% VLT tint with less than 25% reflection

• If the rear window is tinted, dual side mirrors are required
• Red, amber, and blue tint color films are illegal in Texas
• Only certified films can be used, and a certificate or a sticker from the installing company and the manufacturer's name and address must be held by the driver.
• For certain medical exemptions, special tins are allowed. Consult Texas tint laws for further details.

• Interstate 10 is a 100-mile section crossing Bexar, Guadeloupe, and Kendall counties. Significant landmarks along this route include the University of Texas (San Antonio Campus), Dominion, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, and the South Texas Medical Centre
• Interstate 35 is known as the Pan-Am Expressway and serves the northeast and southeast sides of the city. It stretches between the northern and western borders of downtown San Antonio and is double-layered in places
• Interstate 37 is known in a section as the Lucian Adams Freeway and is used as a hurricane evacuation route coming north. It stretches for 59 miles and crosses Atascosa and Bexar Counties
• Interstate 410 is a 50-mile loop route around San Antonio city. It crosses through Bexar county. Landmarks include the Brooks City-Base, Texas A&M University, and Palo Alto College

San Antonio HOV Lanes

• I-10 West between La Cantera Parkway and Ralph Fair Road
• US 281 from Evans Road to Stone Oak Parkway

• The month of April has been named ‘Distracted Driving Awareness month’ by the San Antonio Municipal Court. During this month road safety resources are distributed and court visitors are asked to sign a Don’t Drive Distracted pledge banner.
• It’s illegal to leave your keys in the ignition and your car unattended in the state of Texas. If caught, you can be fined $500.
• Texas law doesn’t state that windshields are mandatory on any vehicle. Therefore in SA, you can legally drive a vehicle without a windshield
• It’s illegal to drive without windshield wipers.
• Opening the driver's or passenger's door with the ignition turned on, is illegal in Texas, even if the car is at a complete standstill. Remember not to open your door at red lights to dump an apple core or remains of your coffee!