You have a green turn arrow, but a bicyclist is lawfully in the crosswalk you will cross. Who must yield?
Correct answer: You must yield to the bicyclist.
Maryland expressly preserves the right of way of a bicycle or pedestrian lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk when a driver follows a green arrow.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-202(e); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You reach a circular red signal with no stop line, but there is a crosswalk. Where is the required stop?
Correct answer: Before entering the crosswalk.
When there is no marked stop line, stop before entering the crosswalk. If neither line nor crosswalk exists, stop before the intersection.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-202(h)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A No Turn on Red sign applies to your approach. The cross street appears empty. What should you do?
Correct answer: Remain stopped until a signal permits your movement.
The statutory permission to turn on red does not apply when a sign prohibits the turn. An apparently empty roadway is not an exception.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-202(i); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
All signal lights at an intersection are out. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop at the proper stopping point, yield, and remain stopped until entering is safe.
Maryland requires a stop at a nonfunctioning traffic signal, followed by yielding to vehicles and pedestrians in the intersection and proceeding only when safe.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-209(1)–(3); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You are about to enter a public highway from a private driveway. Which action is required?
Correct answer: Stop and yield to vehicles approaching on the highway.
Maryland requires drivers entering or crossing a highway from a driveway or another non-highway place to stop and yield to approaching highway traffic.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-404(a)–(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
May you flash your turn signal solely to tell the driver behind you that it is safe to pass?
Correct answer: No; turn signals may not be used as courtesy “do pass” signals.
Maryland prohibits using these signals as a courtesy invitation to pass. A following driver must assess passing conditions instead of treating your signal as a guarantee.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-604(f)(2); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
On a two-way road wide enough for normal traffic, no passing maneuver, obstruction or special lane rule applies. Which half should you use?
Correct answer: The right half of the roadway.
The normal rule is to drive on the right half. The statute lists specific exceptions; an empty road alone is not one of them.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-301(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A slower driver must prepare for a lawful left turn. Does the keep-right requirement forbid using the proper lane for that turn?
Correct answer: No; preparing for a lawful left turn is a stated exception.
The keep-right provision preserves the ability to prepare for a lawful left turn. The driver must still change lanes safely and obey turn-lane controls.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-301(b)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
While passing in a lane used by opposing traffic, by what point must you be back in an authorized lane?
Correct answer: Before coming within 200 feet of an approaching vehicle.
Return as soon as practicable and, when the pass uses an opposing-traffic lane, before the approaching vehicle is within 200 feet. You also need adequate visibility and clearance before starting.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-305(a)(2); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A bridge is 80 feet ahead and your view of opposing traffic is obstructed. On this two-way road, may you use the left side to pass?
Correct answer: No; the obstructed-view restriction applies within 100 feet of the bridge.
Where the view is obstructed, the rule bars left-side driving within 100 feet of a bridge, viaduct or tunnel. A signal cannot compensate for unavailable sight distance.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-305(b)(2)(iii); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Traffic is slow. May you travel along a two-way left-turn lane to pass the queue and continue straight?
Correct answer: No; it is a turning lane, not a passing lane.
A shared two-way left-turn lane may be entered for the listed turn movements when clear of opposing movement. It is not an extra through lane.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-309(g); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
No special traffic control device changes the normal turning path. From which lane should you approach a left turn?
Correct answer: The extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic in your direction.
The normal left-turn approach is from the leftmost lane lawfully available to your direction of travel. Signaling does not authorize an incorrect approach lane.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-601(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
After pulling aside for an approaching emergency vehicle with the required signals, when may you leave that stopped position?
Correct answer: After the emergency vehicle has passed, when it is safe to rejoin traffic.
The statute requires staying stopped in the yielding position until the emergency vehicle passes. Check traffic before moving again; no fixed waiting count replaces that duty.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-405(c); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A stopped vehicle with warning signals is ahead, but traffic prevents a safe lane change away from it. What is the required alternative?
Correct answer: Slow to a reasonable, prudent speed safe for the conditions.
If a compliant lane change cannot be made, reduce to a safe speed for the weather, road and nearby vehicle or pedestrian conditions. The rule does not require an unsafe lane change.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-405(e)(2)(ii); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A school vehicle is stopped with red lights on the opposite, separate roadway of a divided highway. You are on the other roadway. Does this school-vehicle stopping rule require your stop?
Correct answer: No; the separate-roadway exception applies in this situation.
The exception depends on a divided highway and a different roadway. It does not simply depend on the number of painted lanes.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-706(c); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
At a crosswalk with no operating traffic signal or pedestrian overpass/tunnel, a pedestrian is crossing on your half of the roadway. What must you do?
Correct answer: Come to a stop for the pedestrian.
In the circumstances covered by this provision, Maryland requires a stop when the crossing pedestrian is on your half of the roadway. Eye contact is not a condition of that duty.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-502(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You are about to turn across a designated bicycle lane occupied by a lawful rider. Who must yield?
Correct answer: You must yield to the rider before crossing the lane.
A driver about to enter or cross a designated bicycle lane or shoulder must yield to a person lawfully riding there, unless another specific provision applies.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1209(d)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
An ordinary motorcycle rider, not an officer performing official duties, wants to pass between adjacent rows of traffic. What does Maryland’s rule say?
Correct answer: That between-lanes movement is prohibited.
Maryland prohibits operating a motorcycle between lanes or adjacent rows of vehicles. The stated police-duty exception does not apply to an ordinary rider.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1303(a)(2), (c)–(d); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A person began crossing on Walk and is only partway across when the hand or Don’t Walk indication appears. What should the person do?
Correct answer: Continue without delay to the sidewalk or safety island.
A pedestrian who partly completed the crossing on Walk should continue without delay to a sidewalk or safety island. The signal change is not an instruction to freeze in traffic.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-203(e); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Outside Baltimore City, what is the ordinary restriction on standing or parking near a crosswalk at an intersection?
Correct answer: Do not stand or park within 20 feet of the crosswalk.
This provision sets a 20-foot restriction and explicitly does not apply in Baltimore City. Local signs and other parking restrictions may also matter; do not turn the exception into a statewide permission.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1003(n); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Local rules do not say otherwise, and parking is allowed on both sides of a one-way roadway. Which position follows the state rule?
Correct answer: Park parallel, facing with traffic, within 12 inches of either curb.
On a one-way roadway, the ordinary rule allows either side while facing the lawful traffic direction. The wheels nearest that curb or edge must be within 12 inches.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1004(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Outside a business or residential district, no disabling-emergency exception applies. From how far away in each direction must a stopped vehicle be clearly visible under this rule?
Correct answer: 200 feet.
The ordinary rural-highway stopping provision requires clear visibility from 200 feet in each direction. A vehicle unavoidably disabled in the roadway is treated separately.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1001(c)–(d); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You miss an exit on a controlled-access highway. May you back up along its shoulder to reach the ramp?
Correct answer: No; backing is prohibited on its roadway and shoulder.
The prohibition covers both the roadway and shoulder of a controlled-access highway. Missing an exit does not provide a backing exception.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1102(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You drive a modern passenger car covered by Maryland’s belt law and have no medical exemption. Must you wear your seat belt?
Correct answer: Yes; the driver must be restrained.
A driver operating a covered motor vehicle must be restrained. The presence of air bags and the type of ordinary trip do not remove this requirement.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §22-412.3(a)–(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
An adult with a full license holds a phone to continue a nonemergency conversation while the car is moving. Does the hands-free rule permit this ongoing handheld use?
Correct answer: No; the narrow hand-use exceptions do not permit holding it throughout the conversation.
For the ordinary driver described, hands may be used only for the specified actions such as starting or ending a call or turning the phone on or off. Continuing an ordinary call while holding the phone is not one of those exceptions.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1124.2(b) and (d); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
