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Indiana Car / Permit: Traffic Laws practice test
Speed limits, turning and signaling rules, headlight and seat-belt requirements, and the everyday laws every driver must follow.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. Indiana law regarding seat belts requires which occupants of a moving vehicle to be buckled?
Correct answer: The driver and all passengers
The law requires the driver and all passengers to wear seat belts whenever the vehicle is in operation.
2. When passing, how far before an approaching vehicle must you have moved back into the right-hand lane?
Correct answer: 100 feet
Complete the pass and pull back to the right at least 100 feet ahead of any car coming toward you from the other direction.
Source: Indiana Driver's Manual, Ch. 7 (Passing Other Vehicles)
3. Indiana law allows a driver to use a hand-held telecommunications device while driving only in which situation?
Correct answer: When placing a 911 call for a genuine emergency
A hand-held device may be used behind the wheel only to place a genuine 911 emergency call; otherwise it must be hands-free.
Source: Indiana Driver's Manual, Ch. 1 (Telecommunications Device Prohibition)
4. What does a solid yellow line on your side of the roadway's center generally indicate?
Correct answer: Passing is not permitted, though you may cross it to turn
Yellow lines divide opposing traffic. A solid yellow line means you should not pass, though you may cross it to make a turn.
Source: Indiana Driver's Manual, Ch. 7 (Yellow Lane Markings)
5. A center lane marked for left turns on a busy two-way road may be used for what purpose?
Correct answer: Making left turns only, from either direction of travel
A designated center turn lane is only for making left turns and must never be used to pass other vehicles.
Source: Indiana Driver's Manual, Ch. 7 (Turning Left from Center Lanes)
6. Indiana's Move Over law requires a motorist approaching a stopped emergency vehicle with flashing lights to do what?
Correct answer: Change lanes away from it, or slow well below the limit if unable to move over
You must move over to a lane away from the emergency vehicle; if you cannot, slow to at least 10 mph under the posted limit and pass with caution.
7. When you meet an oncoming vehicle at night, you must switch to low-beam headlights once you are within what distance of it?
Correct answer: 500 feet
Low beams are required when you come within 500 feet of an oncoming vehicle so you do not blind the other driver.
8. When moving between lanes on a multi-lane road, what is the correct practice?
Correct answer: Shift only one lane at a time and signal each change
Change only one lane at a time and give a proper signal for each move; weaving through lanes sharply raises crash risk.
9. What does Indiana law say about making a U-turn across the median of an interstate highway?
Correct answer: It is illegal except for emergency or highway maintenance vehicles
Crossing an interstate median or crossover is illegal except for emergency or highway maintenance vehicles; other drivers must use the next exit.
Source: Indiana Driver's Manual, Ch. 7 (Driving on Interstate Highways)
10. At night, low-beam headlights are required when you follow another vehicle within how many feet of its rear?
Correct answer: 200 feet
You must dim to low beams when following within 200 feet of the vehicle ahead to avoid glaring in its mirrors.
11. On a highway, which lane should slower-moving vehicles normally use?
Correct answer: The right lane
Slower traffic should stay in the right lane, leaving the left lane open for faster-moving and passing vehicles.
12. It is illegal to pass another vehicle within 100 feet of which of the following?
Correct answer: An intersection, railroad crossing, bridge, or tunnel
You may not pass when you are closer than 100 feet to a railroad crossing, an intersection, a tunnel, a viaduct, or a bridge.
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