A pedestrian began crossing during WALK. The signal changes to flashing DON’T WALK while the person is still crossing your path. What must you do?
Correct answer: Yield so the pedestrian can finish reaching the sidewalk or safety island.
The flashing indication prevents a new crossing from starting, but drivers must yield to a person already partly across after starting during WALK. Let that person finish safely.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-802 (5)(c); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
A pedestrian crosses outside a crosswalk and fails to yield to your car. Does having the right-of-way remove your duty to avoid hitting the person?
Correct answer: No, you must still exercise due care and act to avoid a collision.
The pedestrian’s duty to yield does not cancel the driver’s duty of care. Slow or stop as needed to avoid a collision, and use a warning when necessary.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-803 (1); section 42-4-807; current on September 13, 2026. ↗
You turn from the road into a driveway. A pedestrian is about to enter the sidewalk area across that driveway. Who must yield to avoid the conflict?
Correct answer: You must yield before driving across the pedestrian’s sidewalk path.
Drivers entering a driveway must yield to pedestrians within or about to enter the sidewalk area across it. Do not cut across that path simply because your turn began first.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-710 (2); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
A marked pedestrian safety zone is empty. May you drive through that zone to get around a traffic queue?
Correct answer: No, vehicles must not be driven through or within the safety zone.
A designated safety zone is not a traffic lane or a shortcut around waiting vehicles. The prohibition applies even when nobody is standing there.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-806; current on September 13, 2026. ↗
An adult cyclist approaches an ordinary stop sign with no bicycle-specific instruction and no posted higher safety-stop speed. Under Colorado’s safety-stop rule, what may the cyclist do?
Correct answer: Slow to 10 mph or less, yield and proceed cautiously if a stop is not needed for safety.
Eligible cyclists may treat an ordinary stop sign as a yield after slowing to a reasonable speed of 10 mph or less and yielding as required. They must stop when needed for safety; a locally posted higher limit is a separate exception.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1412.5 (2)(a), (2)(d); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
An adult cyclist faces an ordinary red signal with no bicycle-specific instruction. All conflicting traffic has cleared and no oncoming vehicle is preparing to turn left. What comes before cautiously going straight?
Correct answer: A complete stop and yielding to other traffic and pedestrians.
For an eligible low-speed conveyance at an ordinary red signal, the rule requires stopping before entering and yielding. It is not the same rolling approach allowed at certain stop signs, and does not apply to cars.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1412.5 (2)(b), (2)(d); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
An adult cyclist has stopped at a red light and wants to use the safety-stop rule to go straight. An oncoming car is preparing to turn left in front of the cyclist. What must the cyclist do?
Correct answer: Wait; the rule does not permit proceeding through that conflict.
The red-signal exception specifically does not permit proceeding straight or turning right while an oncoming vehicle is turning or preparing to turn left in front of the rider.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1412.5 (2)(b); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
A city-installed signal at an intersection gives instructions specifically to bicycles. Can an adult cyclist disregard it by relying on the general safety-stop rule?
Correct answer: No, the cyclist must follow the bicycle-specific instructions.
The law expressly requires the affected low-speed conveyance to obey a local sign or signal directed specifically to it. The general safety-stop permission does not override that instruction.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1412.5 (2)(d); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
An adult cyclist ahead lawfully slows and yields through an ordinary stop sign without stopping. You are behind in a passenger car. May you follow using the same safety-stop exception?
Correct answer: No, you must make the stop required for your car.
The exception covers qualifying low-speed conveyances, not a passenger car. A car driver must stop and yield at the stop sign unless a police officer directs otherwise.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1412.5 (2)(a), (4)(b); section 42-4-703 (3); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
After stopping at an ordinary red signal, an adult cyclist wants to turn left onto a two-way street under the safety-stop rule. All traffic is clear. Does that exception permit this left turn?
Correct answer: No, its left-on-red permission requires turning onto a one-way street.
Under this exception, a left turn after stopping and yielding at red is limited to a turn onto a one-way street, with additional protection for an oncoming right-turning vehicle. It does not authorize a left turn onto a two-way street.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1412.5 (2)(c); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
A motorcycle is riding within a traffic lane and there appears to be space alongside it. May you drive your car beside it in that same lane and deprive it of the lane’s full use?
Correct answer: No, a motorcycle is entitled to the full use of its traffic lane.
Do not crowd a motorcycle into part of its lane. The full-lane entitlement is not removed because the motorcycle is narrower than a car; the two-motorcycles-abreast exception does not authorize a car to share that space.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1503 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
A two-wheeled motorcycle filters where passed vehicles and adjacent same-direction traffic are stopped, the lane is wide enough and conditions are prudent. What maximum passing speed does the exception allow?
Correct answer: 15 mph.
The filtering exception caps the motorcycle’s speed at 15 mph, and conditions may require less. That limit alone is not permission to filter: stopped traffic, sufficient lane width and prudent operation are also required.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1503 (3)(b)(I); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
Your lane has stopped, but traffic in the adjacent same-direction lane is still moving. Does Colorado’s motorcycle filtering exception permit a rider to pass your stopped car in your lane?
Correct answer: No, adjacent same-direction motor-vehicle traffic must also be stopped.
The exception requires the overtaken vehicle and motor vehicles in adjacent lanes going the same direction to be stopped. A stopped queue in just one lane is not enough.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1503 (3)(b)(I)(A), (B); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
A motorcyclist is lawfully filtering past stopped cars. What must happen when the vehicles being passed start moving?
Correct answer: The rider must stop overtaking under the filtering exception.
The exception ends when the motor vehicles being overtaken begin moving. The rider must cease that overtaking; it is not general permission to split lanes in moving traffic.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1503 (3)(b)(II); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
Traffic is stopped on a highway. May a motorcyclist use the right shoulder to pass the queue under the filtering exception?
Correct answer: No, that exception does not permit passing on the right shoulder.
The filtering provision expressly excludes passing on the right shoulder. The fact that traffic is stopped and the motorcycle is moving slowly does not create permission to use it.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1503 (3)(b)(III)(A); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
A driver of a three-wheeled autocycle wants to use Colorado’s same-lane filtering exception to pass stopped cars. Does the exception cover that vehicle?
Correct answer: No, the exception is for a two-wheeled motorcycle.
The ordinary prohibition covers motorcycles and autocycles, while the filtering exception specifically names a two-wheeled motorcycle. Having sufficient width or traveling slowly does not extend it to an autocycle.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1503 (2), (3)(a), (3)(b)(I); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
