An official traffic-control device expressly permits a right turn on the steady red right arrow facing you. How may you use that permission?
Correct answer: Stop, yield, then turn right when safe
Ohio permits this specifically authorized stopped turn in the arrow's direction, subject to the duties that apply after a stop sign. It is not a general permission to ignore red arrows.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.13(C)(2)(b), effective 2025-06-30; 4511.43(A), effective 2018-10-29. Reviewed 2026-09-12. ↗
A lane-control signal shows a steady white two-way left-turn arrow. How is that lane designated?
Correct answer: For left turns from either direction, not through travel
The white two-way left-turn indication allows opposing streams to use the lane for left turns. It does not designate a through lane, and opposing turning traffic can also use it.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.131(C); current section effective 2025-06-30, reviewed 2026-09-12. ↗
You intend to turn left into a driveway. An oncoming car is close enough that your turn would create an immediate hazard. What is required?
Correct answer: Yield to the oncoming car
Left-turn yielding is not limited to intersections. It also applies when turning into an alley, private road, or driveway if opposing traffic is within the intersection or close enough to pose an immediate hazard.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.42(A); current section effective 2018-10-29, reviewed 2026-09-12. ↗
A car ahead is about to turn left. There is enough unobstructed roadway to its right for you to pass safely without leaving the roadway. Which statement is correct?
Correct answer: A right-side pass may be allowed under these conditions
A left-turning vehicle is one situation in which passing on the right may be permitted. The movement must still be safe and must not be made by driving off the roadway.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.28(A)(1), (B); current section effective 2018-10-29, reviewed 2026-09-12. ↗
An official sign reserves a lane for buses during the hours you are driving. You are in an ordinary car and no exception applies. May you use it to bypass a queue?
Correct answer: No; follow the posted lane restriction
Ohio requires drivers to obey official signs restricting a lane to buses during specified hours or all hours. A queue does not cancel the restriction.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.33(A)(3); current section effective 2018-10-29, reviewed 2026-09-12. ↗
On a two-lane road, a school bus has stopped to unload children. How far from its front or rear must an approaching driver make the required stop?
Correct answer: At least ten feet
Ohio requires the stop at least ten feet from the front or rear of the stopped school bus. The four-or-more-lane opposing-traffic exception does not apply on this two-lane road.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.75(A), (C); current section effective 2025-09-30, reviewed 2026-09-12. ↗
A stationary police vehicle displays its prescribed warning lights beside your lane. Your highway has two lanes in your direction, and changing away is safe. What must you do?
Correct answer: Move cautiously to the lane away from it
For a listed stationary vehicle displaying the required visual signals, use due caution and move to a nonadjacent lane when possible and safe on a highway with at least two same-direction lanes.
Source: Ohio Revised Code 4511.213(A), (A)(1); current section effective 2018-10-29, reviewed 2026-09-12. ↗
A winter storm is making local roads hazardous, and your shopping trip can wait. What is the safer plan?
Correct answer: Postpone the nonessential trip
Avoiding unnecessary travel reduces exposure to dangerous conditions.
Source: Ohio Department of Public Safety, winter-driving bulletin, January 3, 2025 > Opening advice on local alerts and unnecessary travel (HTML practical guidance; reviewed September 12, 2026) ↗
A thick replacement floor mat can slide near the pedals. What should you do before driving?
Correct answer: Install a correctly fitting mat using its specified retainers
Loose or incorrectly fitted mats can interfere with the accelerator or brake.
Source: NHTSA, Winter Weather Driving Tips > Changes You May Notice > Floor Mats (HTML practical guidance; reviewed September 12, 2026) ↗
A car develops persistent tire vibration and repeatedly loses pressure. What is the appropriate next step?
Correct answer: Have a tire-service professional inspect it
Changes in performance, pressure loss and vibration warrant professional attention.
Source: NHTSA, TireWise > Aging > Should I replace my tires?, performance-issues bullet (HTML practical guidance; reviewed September 12, 2026) ↗
A car is equipped with forward-collision warning but no automatic emergency braking. What should the driver expect from that feature?
Correct answer: An alert, not automatic braking to avoid the crash
A warning-only system depends on the driver's response.
Source: NHTSA, Driver Assistance Technologies > Technologies Explained > Collision Warning > Forward Collision Warning (HTML practical guidance; reviewed September 12, 2026) ↗
You checked behind the car before getting in. As you reverse slowly, what should you continue doing?
Correct answer: Look behind and check mirrors for people entering the path
Children can move unpredictably after an initial check.
Source: NHTSA, Child Safety > Backover > Prevention Tips, look-behind and active-mirror bullets (HTML practical guidance; reviewed September 12, 2026) ↗
At a ramp entrance, this sign faces your car. Which choice follows its message?
Correct answer: Choose another entrance
The sign prohibits entering this roadway from the direction you are approaching.
Source: FHWA MUTCD, 11th Edition with Revision 1 (December 2025), Section 2B.46, paragraphs 01–02 and 06–08, R5-1; printed page 109 / physical PDF page 150 ↗
You are traveling in the right lane. What change does this sign warn is ahead?
Correct answer: The right lane ends
The right-hand lane narrows away in this symbol. It warns of fewer lanes in your direction, not an added lane.
Source: FHWA MUTCD, 11th Edition with Revision 1 (December 2025), Section 2C.47, paragraphs 01–09, W4-2; printed pages 183 and 186 / physical PDF pages 224 and 227 ↗
What should you be ready to encounter after this yellow warning sign?
Correct answer: A traffic signal ahead
Signal Ahead provides advance notice of a traffic signal. The warning sign does not tell you which signal indication you will encounter.
Source: FHWA MUTCD, 11th Edition with Revision 1 (December 2025), Section 2C.35, paragraphs 01–10, W3-3; printed page 177 / physical PDF page 218 ↗
An applicant passes Ohio's knowledge test and vision screening today. Within what period does the BMV direct the applicant to purchase the TIPIC?
Correct answer: Within 60 days of passing the test.
The BMV's permit-purchase instructions specify 60 days after passing the test. Passing is not the same step as receiving the permit.
Source: First Issuance: Purchasing your Temporary Permit (TIPIC), first paragraph; repeated under Ages 18–20 and Over Age 21. ↗
A 20-year-old who is not emancipated practices with a licensed 25-year-old friend. The friend is not a parent, guardian or custodian and is not acting in place of a parent. Do age and licensing alone qualify the friend to sign the required under-21 practice affidavit?
Correct answer: No. The signer must separately qualify as an eligible adult.
The affidavit has its own eligible-adult definition, including specified family, parental-role and emancipated-applicant categories. Meeting the ordinary age-and-license conditions to supervise practice does not by itself establish eligibility to sign.
Source: ORC 4507.21(B)(2) and (I)(1)–(3), affidavit signer definition; effective March 20, 2026. Compare ORC 4507.05(A)(2)(b), ordinary age-16-plus practice supervision. ↗
A six-year-old weighing 35 pounds rides in a modern private car. No medical or emergency exception applies. Which Ohio restraint rule still applies to this child?
Correct answer: The under-40-pound child-restraint requirement.
Being at least four does not end the child-restraint requirement when the child still weighs less than 40 pounds. Use a compliant child restraint properly, following its manufacturer's instructions.
Source: ORC 4511.81(A)(1)–(2), (C) and (H); current version effective March 20, 2025. ↗
After a property-damage collision on an Ohio public road, you stop. The other driver and a police officer are both at the scene. To whom must you give the required identifying information?
Correct answer: Both the other driver and the officer at the scene.
The public-road crash statute requires the identifying information to be given to the relevant damaged-vehicle person and to an officer at the scene. It includes your name/address, the owner's name/address if different, and the vehicle's registered number.
Source: ORC 4549.02(A)(1), required information and recipients (a)–(c); current version effective September 13, 2016. ↗
A driver presents a phone solely to show Ohio financial-responsibility proof. Under the financial-responsibility statute, what content may be viewed for that purpose?
Correct answer: Only the displayed financial-responsibility evidence.
The statute limits viewing for this purpose to the financial-responsibility evidence displayed. It does not authorize reviewing other phone content just to obtain that proof; this question does not address separate legal grounds for a search.
Source: ORC 4509.101(N)(1), content viewed when a device is used to present proof; current version effective September 30, 2025. ↗
