You are involved in a collision that injures another person. What is your immediate scene duty?
Correct answer: Stop near the scene and remain to fulfill your duties.
The driver must stop as close as possible without obstructing traffic more than necessary, return if needed, and remain until the assistance and information duties are met.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-102(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Your car strikes an occupied vehicle and causes damage but no injury. May you leave without stopping because nobody was hurt?
Correct answer: No; stop and fulfill the required information duties.
Damage to an attended vehicle or attended property also requires stopping, returning if needed and remaining until the applicable duties are completed.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-103(a)–(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Someone injured in your collision asks for medical treatment. What duty does the statute impose?
Correct answer: Render reasonable assistance and arrange medical transportation.
Reasonable assistance includes arranging transportation for medical treatment when treatment is requested or clearly necessary. Emergency medical services can provide appropriate help.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-104(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Which information must you provide to the other covered people after an attended-vehicle crash?
Correct answer: Your name, address and the vehicle’s registration number.
The statute requires name, address and vehicle registration number. On request, the driver also exhibits the available driving license.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-104(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
An officer investigates a crash in which you damaged an attended vehicle. Must you provide the required identifying information to that officer too?
Correct answer: Yes; the information duty also applies to the investigating officer.
The same identifying information must be provided to an officer at the scene or otherwise investigating. On request, the available driving license must also be exhibited.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-104(c); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
After an injury crash, no officer is present and all people entitled to your information are unable to receive it. After giving all possible required assistance, what must you do?
Correct answer: Immediately report to the nearest authorized police office.
After fulfilling the other duties as far as possible, the driver must immediately report to the nearest authorized police authority and give the required information. This is not permission to abandon assistance.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-104(d); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You damage an unoccupied parked car. What must you do first under the unattended-property rule?
Correct answer: Stop and attempt to locate the responsible person.
The driver must stop near the scene without unnecessary obstruction and attempt to locate the driver, owner or person in charge. An unattended car is not an exemption from crash duties.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-105(a)–(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You cannot locate the owner of an unattended car you damaged. What should the secure written notice include?
Correct answer: Your details, your vehicle’s registration, and its owner’s details.
Leave the notice conspicuously and securely in or on the damaged property. It must give your name and address, the registration number, and the name and address of your vehicle’s owner.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-105(b)–(c); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Your vehicle strikes and injures a domestic animal. Who must you immediately notify under this rule?
Correct answer: The appropriate State or local police.
The statute requires immediate notice to the appropriate State or local police. Police then notify the designated local animal-care organization or agency.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-106(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You can make a report, and no police investigation report has been filed with State Police. Within how long must an injury crash be reported in writing to the MVA?
Correct answer: 15 days after the crash.
The written-report period is 15 days for a crash involving injury or death. The question excludes the police-report and physical-incapacity exceptions.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-107(a) and (f); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Police investigated your crash and filed their report with the Department of State Police. Does §20-107 still require your separate written accident report?
Correct answer: No; that specific written-report exception applies.
The filed police investigation report is an exception to this particular written-report requirement. It does not erase the separate scene, assistance and information duties.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-107(f)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You must file an MVA written injury-crash report and no exception applies. What evidence must accompany it within the same 15 days?
Correct answer: Evidence of liability insurance or other required security.
The report must include evidence of the required liability insurance or security, including provider and policy-identifying information specified by the statute.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-107(b)–(c); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You keep a vehicle registered in Maryland but plan not to drive it for a few weeks. Does simply not driving remove the requirement to maintain security during registration?
Correct answer: No; required security must continue during the registration period.
The registered vehicle’s owner must maintain the required insurance or other accepted security during the registration period. Temporary nonuse alone does not end that duty.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §17-104(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Before the MVA issues or transfers a motor vehicle registration, what must the owner demonstrate?
Correct answer: That the required insurance or accepted security is in effect.
The MVA may not issue or transfer registration without satisfactory evidence that required security is already in effect. A future intention to insure is insufficient.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §17-104(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
For ordinary vehicle liability, which minimum limits does Maryland specify for one person’s injury, multiple people’s injuries in one accident, and others’ property damage?
Correct answer: $30,000 / $60,000 / $15,000.
The listed liability minima are $30,000 for one person, $60,000 for two or more people and $15,000 for others’ property. This is not a statement that these three amounts describe every required coverage or a recommendation to buy only minimum coverage.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §17-103(b)(1)–(2); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
May you shift a car into neutral and coast down a downgrade on the road?
Correct answer: No; coasting downhill with the transmission in neutral is prohibited.
Maryland prohibits a motor-vehicle driver from coasting down a downgrade with the gears or transmission in neutral. The separate truck and bus clutch rule does not create a car exception.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1108(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You are parked and a cyclist is approaching alongside the car. When may you open the traffic-side door?
Correct answer: When reasonably safe and without interfering with moving traffic.
Opening a door on a side available to moving traffic must be reasonably safe and must not interfere with that traffic. A cyclist alongside the car is part of that safety check.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1105(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Your passengers have finished getting out. May you leave the traffic-side door open while you wait to chat?
Correct answer: No; do not leave it open beyond the necessary loading time.
On a side available to moving traffic, the door may not remain open longer than necessary to load or unload passengers. Finishing that task ends the stated reason to keep it open.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1105(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A family member wants to ride inside a mobile home while you tow it on a highway. Is that allowed?
Correct answer: No; nobody may occupy it while it is being towed.
The rule prohibits occupancy of a mobile home being towed on a highway and also prohibits the driver from allowing it. This question does not concern a self-propelled motorhome.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1106(a)–(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You are not on official business. How close may you follow fire apparatus responding to a fire alarm?
Correct answer: Do not follow within 500 feet.
Ordinary traffic may not follow within 500 feet of responding fire apparatus. Do not use the space behind it as a shortcut through traffic.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1109(a)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You are not on official business. What restriction applies near fire apparatus stopped in response to a fire alarm?
Correct answer: Do not drive or park within 300 feet.
The statute prohibits driving or parking within 300 feet of fire apparatus stopped for a fire alarm, unless on official business. Stopping does not end the protection.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1109(a)(2); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
An emergency vehicle is backing at a fire-station entrance. Within what distance of that entrance ramp is passing it prohibited?
Correct answer: 100 feet.
A driver may not pass an emergency vehicle within 100 feet of a fire or rescue station entrance ramp while that emergency vehicle is parking or backing.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1109(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
An unprotected fire hose lies across a highway or private driveway. What permission is required before driving over it?
Correct answer: Consent of the fire department official in command.
Do not cross the unprotected hose without the consent of the fire department official in command. A private-driveway location does not create an exception.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1110; Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Nails spill from material you are transporting onto the highway. What responsibility applies?
Correct answer: Immediately remove them or arrange for their removal.
A person who drops or permits hazardous material on the highway must remove it or cause it to be removed immediately. Arrange safe removal rather than exposing yourself to moving traffic.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1111(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A person removes a wrecked vehicle from the highway. What duty applies to glass and other injurious debris dropped from that vehicle?
Correct answer: Remove that debris from the highway too.
The person removing the damaged or wrecked vehicle must also remove glass and other injurious substances it dropped. Removing the vehicle alone does not complete this responsibility.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1111(c); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
