A 13-year-old rides in the rear seat of a modern car. What restraint duty applies?
Correct answer: Use an approved child restraint or be correctly buckled in a safety belt.
Children eight through 17 must use an approved restraint or a correctly buckled safety belt. Rear-seat placement does not remove that duty.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-21-41.2(1), physical PDF page 15. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
An adult rear-seat passenger has an available belt in an ordinary five-seat car manufactured with belts. No exception applies. Must the passenger buckle up?
Correct answer: Yes; all seating positions are covered.
Current law requires each occupant of the described vehicle to wear a properly adjusted and fastened belt, subject to the listed exceptions.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-21-41.4, physical PDF page 15. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
An adult regular-license holder manually reads a routine text while temporarily stopped at a red light. Is that allowed under North Dakota’s texting rule?
Correct answer: No; a temporary traffic-signal stop remains part of traffic.
The statutory definition of traffic includes a temporary stop at a signal. Lawfully parking is different from waiting at a red light.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-08-23(1), (2)(a)–(b), continuing physical page 14, physical PDF page 13. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
A two-car crash inside a city causes apparent combined property damage of $4,500 and no injuries. What notification is required?
Correct answer: Immediately notify the local police.
A crash involving injury, death or at least $4,000 apparent property damage requires immediate notice. Inside a municipality, notify local police; outside, notify the sheriff or highway patrol.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-08-09(1), physical PDF page 8. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
You strike an unattended parked car and cannot locate the owner. What should the written notice you leave include?
Correct answer: Names and addresses of the driver and owner, the insurance carrier, and the collision circumstances.
Stop and either locate the owner or leave the required identifying, insurance and circumstance information conspicuously on the struck vehicle.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-08-07, physical PDF page 7. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
After a collision, someone appears injured and needs treatment. What must an involved driver do?
Correct answer: Remain at the scene and provide reasonable assistance, including arranging needed medical help.
The duty includes providing identifying information and reasonable assistance. Arrange emergency medical help rather than leaving or making unnecessary moves that may worsen injury.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §§39-08-04 and 39-08-06, physical PDF page 7. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
Which amounts are North Dakota’s minimum bodily-injury liability per person/per accident and property-damage liability per accident?
Correct answer: $25,000 / $50,000 / $25,000.
These are the minimum liability limits. North Dakota also requires specified uninsured/underinsured motorist and basic no-fault coverage; liability alone is not the whole coverage requirement.
Source: North Dakota Insurance Department, Auto — minimum insurance coverages. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
On an undivided two-way road, an oncoming school bus is stopped with its red lights flashing. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop before reaching the bus.
Drivers meeting or overtaking a stopped bus must stop when the red lights or stop arm operate. Do not wait for a child to enter the roadway.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-10-46(1), physical PDF page 15. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
A stopped school bus’s red lights go out, but its stop arm remains extended. The driver has not signaled you and the bus has not moved. May you proceed?
Correct answer: No; in this situation both the red lights and stop arm must be inactive before proceeding.
The alternatives are that the bus resumes motion, the bus driver signals you to proceed, or both the red lights and stop arm are no longer actuated. The stated situation meets none of them.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-10-46(1), physical PDF page 15. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
A school bus ahead begins flashing its amber caution lights. What should you anticipate?
Correct answer: The bus is about to stop and its red flashing lights may soon operate.
Be especially alert and prepare for the stop. Amber cautions warn of the upcoming loading or unloading stop.
Source: North Dakota Class D Noncommercial Driver License Manual, 2025–2027 cover / Revised 2025, printed page 20, physical PDF page 24: Right of Way — school bus caution lights. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
On a multilane highway outside a city, a car is stopped on the shoulder with hazard lights flashing. A lane away from it is safely available. What should you do?
Correct answer: Proceed cautiously and move into the lane not adjacent to the stopped car.
The stationary-vehicle rule covers a motor vehicle displaying hazard warning signals, not only marked emergency vehicles.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-10-26.3(1), physical PDF page 11. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
You approach a hazard-lighted stopped vehicle on the interstate, but a safe move away is unavailable. What is required?
Correct answer: Proceed cautiously, reduce speed and maintain a speed safe for conditions.
The law provides a cautious reduced-speed response when traffic and safety prevent moving to a nonadjacent lane.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-10-26.3(1), physical PDF page 11. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
On a two-lane city street, an emergency vehicle is stopped at an emergency scene with flashing red lights. No officer is directing traffic. What does the stated rule require?
Correct answer: Move to the right edge and stop; proceed past only when the roadway is clear.
The emergency-scene provision requires a right-edge stop, then allows passage when clear at the driver’s risk. An officer’s directions control when present.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-10-26(2), first and second sentences, physical PDF page 10. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
When are an ordinary moving car’s required lamps needed on a North Dakota highway?
Correct answer: From sunset to sunrise and when adverse conditions or insufficient light prevent clear visibility at 1,000 feet.
The ordinary-car rule uses sunset to sunrise and the 1,000-foot adverse-visibility condition. Parking and farm-tractor provisions are separately scoped.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-21-01, physical PDF page 1. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
You follow another vehicle at night. Within what distance must you stop using the uppermost headlight beam?
Correct answer: 300 feet.
Dim when following within 300 feet. Approaching oncoming traffic has a separate 500-foot rule.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-21-21(2), physical PDF page 8. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
You plan to park eight feet from a fire hydrant, with no officer or emergency directing the stop. Does that meet North Dakota’s ordinary rule?
Correct answer: No; parking within 10 feet is prohibited.
Do not stop, stand or park within 10 feet of the hydrant under the ordinary rule. Leaving the engine running does not create an exception.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-10-49(4), physical PDF page 17. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
When ordinarily parking parallel along the right curb of a two-way roadway, how close must the right wheels be?
Correct answer: Within 12 inches of the curb.
The ordinary rule requires parallel parking with the right wheels within 12 inches of the right-hand curb.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-10-50(1), physical PDF page 18. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
What is the ordinary speed limit in a North Dakota residential district when no different limit is designated and posted?
Correct answer: 25 mph.
The statutory default for a business or residential district or public park is 25 mph, subject to different posted limits and the duty to slow for conditions.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-09-02(1)(e), physical PDF page 2. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
Children are leaving school at closing time and no lower limit is posted. What statutory school-passing limit applies?
Correct answer: 20 mph.
The school limit is 20 mph during recess or while children are going to or leaving school during opening or closing hours, unless a lower local limit applies.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-09-02(1)(b), physical PDF page 2. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
Under ideal conditions with no other applicable restriction, which maximum applies to an access-controlled, paved, divided multilane interstate highway?
Correct answer: 80 mph.
The current statutory interstate maximum is 80 mph. It is not permission to ignore a lower posted limit or unsafe conditions, and does not apply to every multilane road.
Source: North Dakota Century Code §39-09-02(1)(i) and (4), physical PDF page 2. Current official source reviewed September 29, 2026. ↗
