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Road-rule practice: Turning and required signals

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Road-rule practice: Turning and required signals

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  1. 1. You are making a normal right turn in a passenger car, with no signs or markers directing a different path. How should you approach and turn?
  2. 2. Two lanes carry traffic in your direction toward an intersection. You will turn left, and no signs or markers direct a different course. Where should you approach?
  3. 3. Official markers and signs at an intersection direct your turn along a path different from the ordinary turning rule. Which path should you follow?
  4. 4. 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?
  5. 5. When a turn signal is required, for at least how much of the approach must it operate continuously before the turn?
  6. 6. You need to stop or suddenly reduce speed, and there is an opportunity to warn a vehicle immediately behind you. What should you do?
  7. 7. 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?
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  1. You are making a normal right turn in a passenger car, with no signs or markers directing a different path. How should you approach and turn?

    Correct answer: Stay as close as practicable to the right curb or roadway edge.

    The ordinary right-turn rule places both the approach and turn as close as practicable to the right curb or edge. Officially directed alternative paths are excluded from this scenario.

    Source: New Hampshire RSA §265:42, I; different-course provisions in II(b) and IV; official General Court HTML chapter body read October 1, 2026. Selected codified road-rule foundation, not a complete DMV handbook or licensing review. ↗

  2. Two lanes carry traffic in your direction toward an intersection. You will turn left, and no signs or markers direct a different course. Where should you approach?

    Correct answer: In the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available in your direction.

    New Hampshire’s left-turn rule specifies the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in your direction. It does not authorize an opposing lane or a turn across another same-direction lane.

    Source: New Hampshire RSA §265:42, II(a), left-turn approach; II(b) and IV exceptions excluded; official General Court HTML chapter body read October 1, 2026. Selected codified road-rule foundation, not a complete DMV handbook or licensing review. ↗

  3. Official markers and signs at an intersection direct your turn along a path different from the ordinary turning rule. Which path should you follow?

    Correct answer: The course directed by the official markers and signs.

    Authorities may direct a different turning course through intersection markers or signs. When those controls are placed, drivers must follow the course they require.

    Source: New Hampshire RSA §265:42, IV, officially directed alternative turning course; official General Court HTML chapter body read October 1, 2026. Selected codified road-rule foundation, not a complete DMV handbook or licensing review. ↗

  4. 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. ↗

  5. 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. ↗

  6. 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. ↗

  7. 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. ↗

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