Near the crest of a hill, an approaching driver from one direction cannot see your car within 500 feet. May you turn around there to travel in the opposite direction?
Correct answer: No. The limited visibility makes that turn prohibited.
A turn into the opposite direction is prohibited on a curve or near a grade crest when the car cannot be seen by an approaching driver from either direction within 500 feet. A missing sign does not remove that restriction.
Source: New Hampshire RSA §265:43, operative curve/grade-crest visibility prohibition; official General Court HTML chapter body read October 1, 2026. Selected codified road-rule foundation, not a complete DMV handbook or licensing review. ↗
When a turn signal is required, for at least how much of the approach must it operate continuously before the turn?
Correct answer: The final 100 feet traveled before turning.
The statute requires a continuous signal for not less than the last 100 feet before the turn. A brief early flash is not continuous signaling over that distance.
Source: New Hampshire RSA §265:45, II, continuous final 100 feet; official General Court HTML chapter body read October 1, 2026. Selected codified road-rule foundation, not a complete DMV handbook or licensing review. ↗
You need to stop or suddenly reduce speed, and there is an opportunity to warn a vehicle immediately behind you. What should you do?
Correct answer: Give an appropriate signal before the stop or sudden decrease.
When there is an opportunity to give it, an appropriate signal must precede a stop or sudden decrease in speed for the driver immediately to the rear. The wording does not invent advance-warning time in an unavoidable emergency.
Source: New Hampshire RSA §265:45, III, warning when opportunity exists; official General Court HTML chapter body read October 1, 2026. Selected codified road-rule foundation, not a complete DMV handbook or licensing review. ↗
You are about to turn from a road into a driveway. No other road user is visible. Does the empty-looking road remove New Hampshire’s appropriate-signal requirement?
Correct answer: No. Give the appropriate signal and still make the turn safely.
The cited New Hampshire turning rules require an appropriate signal without making that duty depend on whether another road user is visible. An apparently empty road also does not remove the reasonable-safety requirement.
Source: New Hampshire RSA §265:44, appropriate signal requirement; also §265:45 I; official General Court HTML chapter body read October 1, 2026. Selected codified road-rule foundation, not a complete DMV handbook or licensing review. ↗
Heavy rain and poor visibility make the posted speed too fast for the road conditions. What should govern your speed?
Correct answer: A reasonable and prudent speed for the actual and potential hazards.
The basic speed rule requires reasonable and prudent speed for existing conditions and hazards. Staying at a posted limit is not a defense to choosing a speed that is unsafe for those conditions.
Source: New Hampshire RSA §265:60, I, reasonable/prudent speed and collision avoidance; official General Court HTML chapter body read October 1, 2026. Selected codified road-rule foundation, not a complete DMV handbook or licensing review. ↗
You approach a hillcrest that limits your view of the road ahead. Which response fits New Hampshire’s reduced-speed rule?
Correct answer: Approach at an appropriately reduced speed for the hazard.
The statute calls for appropriately reduced speed when approaching a hillcrest, consistent with the basic prudent-speed rule. A separate warning sign or a visible obstacle is not required to recognize the hazard.
Source: New Hampshire RSA §265:60, IV, approaching a hillcrest; consistency with I; official General Court HTML chapter body read October 1, 2026. Selected codified road-rule foundation, not a complete DMV handbook or licensing review. ↗
An icy road requires a slower speed for safe operation, although traffic behind you must also slow. Does the rule against impeding traffic require an unsafe increase in speed?
Correct answer: No. Reduced speed necessary for safe operation is an express exception.
The slow-speed prohibition excepts reduced speed necessary for safe operation or compliance with law. It does not require driving too fast for an icy roadway.
Source: New Hampshire RSA §265:64, I, safety/compliance exception to slow-speed prohibition; official General Court HTML chapter body read October 1, 2026. Selected codified road-rule foundation, not a complete DMV handbook or licensing review. ↗
You are traveling along an ordinary two-way road of sufficient width. There is no obstruction, passing maneuver or other special lane arrangement. Where should you drive?
Correct answer: On the right half of the roadway.
New Hampshire requires right-half travel unless a listed exception applies. A clear opposing lane does not by itself create an exception.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:16, I, ordinary right-half rule and listed exceptions; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
A fallen branch blocks your side of a two-way road. Going around it would put you left of center, where an oncoming car is close enough to be a hazard. What should you do?
Correct answer: Yield to the oncoming car before using its side to get around the obstruction.
The obstruction exception does not grant priority over oncoming traffic. A driver using the unobstructed side must yield to vehicles properly traveling there that are close enough to be an immediate hazard.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:16, I(b), obstruction exception and immediate-hazard yielding duty; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
You are driving below the normal traffic flow on a multilane road. You are neither passing nor preparing for a left turn. Which lane is normally appropriate?
Correct answer: The available right-hand lane.
Traffic moving below the normal speed for the place and conditions must use the available right-hand lane or keep as close as practicable to the right edge. The statute preserves passing and left-turn preparation exceptions.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:16, II, slower-than-normal traffic and passing/left-turn exceptions; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
On a multilane road under ordinary safe conditions, you have stayed continuously in the left lane and are holding up other traffic traveling at or below the speed limit. No hazard makes that position reasonable. What should you do?
Correct answer: Use an appropriate lane to the right when safe instead of continuing to obstruct that traffic.
Section 265:16 IV prohibits continuous left-lane operation that impedes traffic traveling at or below the posted limit, unless the position is reasonable and prudent for actual or potential hazards. A safe lane change is still required.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:16, IV, continuous left-lane operation impeding traffic at or below the posted limit; hazard qualification; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
During a lawful pass on the left, your car has only just drawn alongside the front of the car you are passing. When may you return to the right in front of it?
Correct answer: After you have become safely clear of the overtaken car.
The passing driver must allow a safe distance and must be safely clear before returning to the right. Merely getting the front of your car ahead does not establish that clearance.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:18, I, safe passing distance and safe clearance before returning right; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
A car behind sounds an audible signal and is lawfully overtaking you on the left. What should you do while it passes?
Correct answer: Give way to the right and do not increase speed until it has completely passed.
The overtaken driver must give way to the right on the audible signal and must not increase speed until completely passed. Competing with the other vehicle prolongs the conflict.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:18, II, audible signal and overtaken driver's duties; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
A vehicle ahead is waiting to turn left. You could get around it on the right only by driving off the roadway. What is the lawful choice?
Correct answer: Wait rather than leave the roadway to make the pass.
A left-turning vehicle is a listed circumstance for passing on the right, but the pass must still be safe and may not be made by driving off the roadway.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:19, I and III, left-turning vehicle; safety and no-off-roadway limits; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
A road has unobstructed pavement wide enough for two lawful lines of traffic moving in your direction. Is a right-side pass automatically forbidden merely because the road also carries traffic in the opposite direction?
Correct answer: No; it may be made if the movement is safe and stays on the roadway.
New Hampshire's provision covers enough unobstructed pavement for two lawful lines moving in the passing driver's direction. It is not limited to one-way roads, but safety and the no-off-roadway condition still apply.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:19, II–III, sufficient unobstructed pavement for lawful same-direction traffic and safe movement; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
You would need an opposing lane for a pass, but cannot see far enough ahead to know whether the entire maneuver could finish without interfering with other traffic. What should you do?
Correct answer: Stay behind until the authorized pass can be completed within a sufficiently clear, visible distance.
A left-of-center pass requires a clearly visible, sufficiently traffic-free distance to finish without interfering with oncoming or overtaken vehicles. The absence of a visible car at one instant is not enough.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:20, First operative paragraph, visibility and sufficient oncoming-traffic clearance; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
You are otherwise lawfully using an opposing-traffic lane to pass. Which return requirement must you meet as an oncoming vehicle approaches?
Correct answer: Return to an authorized lane as soon as practicable and before coming within 200 feet of the oncoming vehicle.
The law requires an early return to an authorized lane and, for a pass using an opposing-traffic lane, completion before the approaching vehicle is within 200 feet. This boundary is not permission to start an unsafe pass.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:20, Second operative paragraph, return to an authorized lane; 200-foot oncoming boundary; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
On a two-way road, a crest blocks your view of oncoming vehicles close enough to create a hazard. May you enter the left half to pass the car ahead?
Correct answer: No; the hazardous obstruction of your view prohibits that movement.
The law prohibits left-side driving near a crest or curve when the obstructed view creates an oncoming-traffic hazard. The stated one-way-road exception does not apply here.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:21, I(a) and II, obstructed-view restriction and one-way exception; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
On an ordinary two-way road, you are 60 feet from an intersection. No traffic-control indication allows otherwise. May you move left of center to overtake a slow car at that point?
Correct answer: No; the left-side restriction applies within 100 feet of the intersection.
Section 265:21 I(b) prohibits this movement within 100 feet of or through an intersection or railroad crossing unless otherwise indicated. The scenario excludes both a contrary indication and the one-way exception.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:21, I(b) and II, 100-foot intersection/rail restriction unless otherwise indicated; one-way exception; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
Your destination is a short distance the wrong way along a posted one-way street. There is no special direction from an officer. May you drive against the designated direction to reach it?
Correct answer: No; follow the posted direction and use another lawful route.
On a designated, signposted one-way roadway, vehicles must travel in the designated direction. A short distance or a different vehicle orientation does not make wrong-way travel permissible.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:23, II, designated and sign-posted direction; official consolidated Chapter 265 HTML and displayed source history read October 1, 2026. ↗
