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West Virginia 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. How does West Virginia law treat the use of an electronic communication device behind the wheel?
Correct answer: It is banned unless the device is operated hands-free
Using such a device on a public street or highway is not allowed unless it is operated hands-free, meaning it can be engaged without using either hand.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter II, The Use of Communication Devices While Operating a Motor Vehicle
2. How close to an intersection does West Virginia forbid passing another vehicle?
Correct answer: 100 feet
The handbook lists a hundred-foot buffer around intersections, bridges, tunnels, underpasses and rail crossings where overtaking is not permitted.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Passing
3. The car in front of you has halted at an intersection so a pedestrian can walk across. May you pass it?
Correct answer: No, passing is prohibited in that situation
The handbook names this as one of the situations where passing is banned, because the pedestrian the stopped driver saw would be hidden from you.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Passing
4. What does the handbook say about backing across a lane of moving traffic?
Correct answer: It is never acceptable, and neither is backing through a junction
Reversing across live lanes or through a junction is ruled out; the only backing normally done from a travel lane is easing into a kerbside parking space.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Backing Up
5. West Virginia permits a left turn against a red signal in which situation?
Correct answer: From a one-way street onto another one-way street
The handbook allows a left turn on red only where a one-way street feeds into another one-way street, and then only after stopping and giving way.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Traffic Lights
6. How far before a turn does West Virginia want your signal switched on?
Correct answer: 100 feet
The handbook sets a minimum of one hundred feet of warning before the turn so drivers around you have time to read your intention and react.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Driving Signals
7. An officer stops you for a moving violation. Besides your license, what must you be able to show?
Correct answer: Proof of liability insurance and the registration card
Drivers have to keep the certificate of West Virginia liability insurance and the current registration card in the vehicle and produce them along with the license.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter I, Carry Your Driver's License
8. Even where a speed limit is posted, what does West Virginia's basic speed law require?
Correct answer: Your speed must stay reasonable and prudent for the conditions
State law bars any speed that is more than reasonable and prudent for the conditions of the moment, so the posted number is a ceiling and not a guarantee.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Basic Speed Law
9. You are traveling well below the normal speed of traffic on a two-lane road. What does West Virginia expect?
Correct answer: Keep as near the right edge as you can and pull off at the first safe turnout
Slow drivers are told to hug the right edge, and where following traffic has no clear lane to overtake, to use the first safe turnout to let it by.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Driving Slowly
10. While you wait in an intersection to turn left, where should the front wheels point?
Correct answer: Straight ahead
The handbook warns to leave the wheels pointing straight; if a vehicle strikes you from behind with the wheels turned, you would be shoved into the path of oncoming traffic.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Turning Maneuvers
11. Which of these actions does the handbook say calls for a turn signal?
Correct answer: Pulling away from the curb
Signals are required before changing lanes, turning at an intersection, joining or leaving an interstate, and moving away from or over to the curb.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Driving Signals
12. Under what condition does West Virginia allow you to overtake on the right?
Correct answer: Only where a lane has been designated for passing
Overtaking on the right is ruled out unless a lane has been set aside for passing; otherwise you must use the left side to go around.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Passing
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