NC DMV PERMIT STUDY GUIDE

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NC DMV PERMIT STUDY GUIDE

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If you are convicted of DWI while your license is revoked for an earlier DWI conviction... - ANSWER✔✔- the court may order your vehicle seized and sold.If a driver who is less than 21 years old is convicted for an offense of driving with any amount of alcohol or drugs in his/her body... - ANSWER✔✔-his/her license will be revoked for one year.

Passing stopped school bus - ANSWER✔✔-Conviction Point Value: 8

Your driving privilege will be revoked for at least 30 days if you are convicted of: - ANSWER✔✔-Driving any vehicle more than 15 miles per hour over the speed limit, if you are driving at a speed higher than 55 mph Your driving privilege will be taken for 60 days if you are convicted of: - ANSWER✔✔-A second charge of speeding over 55 mph and more than 15 mph above the speed limit within one year; or• Speeding plus reckless driving on the same occasion.Your driving prividlege will be taken permanently if: - ANSWER✔✔-You commit Manslaughter while under the influence of an impairing substance Your driving prividlege will be taken for 3 years if: - ANSWER✔✔-Prearranged racing with another motor vehicle on the highway 1 / 3

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Some examples of moving violations: - ANSWER✔✔-• Passing a stopped school bus • Reckless driving • Hit-and-run • Following too closely • Driving on the wrong side of the road • Illegal passing • Running through a stop sign or red light • Failure to yield right of way • Failure to stop for an emergency siren -Speeding During an average lifetime of driving, we face about a.... - ANSWER✔✔-a one-in-three chance of being seriously injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash.Exemptions to the seat belt law: - ANSWER✔✔-• A driver or occupant of a noncommercial motor vehicle with a medical or physical condition that prevents appropriate restraint by a seat belt or with a professionally certified mental phobia against the wearing of vehicle restraints; • A motor vehicle operated by a rural letter carrier of the United States Postal Service while performing duties as a rural letter carrier, and a motor vehicle operated by a newspaper delivery person while actually engaged in delivery of newspapers along the person's specified route ;• A driver or passenger frequently stopping and leaving the vehicle or delivering property from the vehicle if the speed of the vehicle between stops does not exceed 20 miles per hour; 2 / 3

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• Any vehicle registered and licensed as a property-carrying vehicle while being used for agricultural purposes in intrastate commerce.• A motor vehicle not required to be equipped with seat belts by law; and• Any occupant of a motor home other than the driver and front seat passengers, provided the motor home has at least four of the following facilities: cooking, refrigeration or icebox, self-contained toilet, heating or air-conditioning, portable water supply system with a faucet and sink, separate 110-115-volt electrical power supply or an LP gas supply.• Situations where all seating positions equipped with child passenger restraint systems or seat belts are occupied; All vehicles, regardless of direction of travel must .... - ANSWER✔✔-must yield right of way to an approaching emergency vehicle. This does not apply to vehicles traveling in the opposite direction of the emergency vehicle(s) when traveling on a four-lane limited-access highway with a center median.When you see emergency lights and/or hear a siren behind you... - ANSWER✔✔-stay calm, activate your turn signal, pull the vehicle always to the right, and off the travel portion of the highway at the nearest point where it is safe to do so.If you get pulled over by law enforcement: - ANSWER✔✔-You should place both hands on the steering wheel and instruct any passengers to keep their hands in a position that is clearly visible to the officer at all times. Passengers in the back seat should place their hands on the back of the front seat. Keep your hands in plain view Funeral Processions - ANSWER✔✔-•Every vehicle in a funeral procession must have its headlights on, and the hazard warning signals must also be on, if so equipped.

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