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Road-rule mix: Roadside incidents and breakdowns

Road rules, learner requirements and driver responsibilities. Use the separate topic sets below for licensing, phones, restraints, crashes and impairment, alongside common car skills and pictured signs. Motorcycle practice and CDL practice have their own questions and progress. Read the full handbook and application instructions too.

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  1. 1. You approach a private car stopped beside the road with its hazard lights flashing. Oncoming traffic prevents a safe wide move to the left. Which response follows New Hampshire's roadside-incident rule?
  2. 2. At a collision scene, part of your lane is blocked and an authorized person directs traffic into an available lane. What should you do?
  3. 3. Your car develops a mechanical problem and stops in a traffic lane. Its hazard flashers work, the car is movable, and you can safely move it to the shoulder. What is required?
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  1. You approach a private car stopped beside the road with its hazard lights flashing. Oncoming traffic prevents a safe wide move to the left. Which response follows New Hampshire's roadside-incident rule?

    Correct answer: Reduce speed and give as much practical berth as you can without endangering oncoming traffic.

    The rule covers stopped or standing vehicles displaying warning signals, including hazard lights. Drivers must maintain reduced speed and give a practical wide berth without endangering oncoming traffic. It does not require an unsafe maneuver.

    Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:37-a, Motorist Duties When Approaching Highway Emergencies, I opening and I(a); history includes 2025, 254:2, effective September 13, 2025; official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗

  2. At a collision scene, part of your lane is blocked and an authorized person directs traffic into an available lane. What should you do?

    Correct answer: Follow the directions and vacate the blocked lane as soon as possible.

    Drivers approaching the covered incident must obey authorized traffic directions and applicable emergency controls, and vacate as soon as possible a lane that is wholly or partially blocked. The reduced-speed and safe-berth duties also apply.

    Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:37-a, Motorist Duties When Approaching Highway Emergencies, I(a)–(c); official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗

  3. Your car develops a mechanical problem and stops in a traffic lane. Its hazard flashers work, the car is movable, and you can safely move it to the shoulder. What is required?

    Correct answer: Activate the hazard flashers and immediately move it to the shoulder or another safe area off the traveled roadway.

    For a mechanical breakdown, working hazard flashers must be activated. If the stopped vehicle is movable and the driver can move it, the driver must immediately move it to the shoulder or another safe area off the traveled portion.

    Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:37-b, Avoidance of Lane Blockage, II–III; official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗

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Road-rule mix: Roadside incidents and breakdowns

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98 original car road-rule and winter questions with explanations after each answer. Choose a short test or focus on a topic.

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Learner and youth-license rules

10 selected local questions cover supervised learning, proof of age, education and additional practice, nighttime driving, passengers and restraint capacity. Existing road-rule and common-skill tests keep their separate question selections.

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Phone, restraints and crash responsibilities

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Impairment and testing responsibilities

7 selected questions cover alcohol thresholds, impairing medicines and qualifying post-arrest testing. These questions have their own practice question selection and join the same saved car review.

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Selected motorcycle requirements

8 local questions cover motorcycle authority and learner restrictions; another 8 cover selected road-use and protection rules, separately from common riding skills. Motorcycle progress and mistakes remain separate from car practice.

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Selected CDL licensing responsibilities

7 local questions cover commercial credentials, employer notification and supervised learning. Another 8 cover medical categories, continuing qualification, ordinary interstate age, covered intrastate examinations and waiver limits. CDL progress and mistakes stay separate from car and motorcycle practice.

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Speed for road conditions

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Lanes and following space

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Right-of-way decisions

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Pedestrian protection

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Roadside incidents and breakdowns

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Rail crossings and buses

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Stopping and parking

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Stalled in winter weather

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