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Delaware 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. On a multi-lane road you come up on a stopped tow truck showing flashing amber lights. What does the move over rule ask of you?
Correct answer: Shift into a lane farther away from it until you are safely past
Delaware's move over provisions cover stationary emergency, DelDOT and tow vehicles displaying warning lights. Where several lanes exist, change lanes; where that cannot be done safely, slow instead.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Move Over Laws
2. In which of these situations does Delaware law require your headlights to be on?
Correct answer: Whenever the windshield wipers are running because of the weather
Besides the hours after sunset and before sunrise, headlights are required whenever the wipers are working and any time you cannot see beyond a thousand feet.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Using Headlights
3. A police officer signals you through an intersection against a red light. What should you do?
Correct answer: Do as the officer directs, because those instructions override signs, signals and markings
Delaware's general laws require drivers to obey an officer even where the instruction conflicts with a control device, because such directions are sometimes needed to keep traffic flowing safely.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — General Laws
4. An ambulance with siren sounding and lights flashing is coming toward you. What does Delaware law require?
Correct answer: Give way and steer at once to the right edge or curb, clear of intersections, until it passes
Every other vehicle must yield and move immediately toward the right-hand edge of the roadway, staying out of intersections, until the emergency vehicle has gone by or an officer directs otherwise.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Move Over Laws
5. On a two-lane road you cannot change lanes to get away from a stopped police car with flashing lights. What does Delaware expect?
Correct answer: Slow to below the posted limit until you have gone completely past it
Where moving over a lane is impossible or unsafe, the driver must continue with caution at a reduced speed until the stopped vehicle is entirely behind them.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Move Over Laws
6. Cutting across the corner of a gas station to avoid waiting at a red light is treated how in Delaware?
Correct answer: It is unlawful, because you may not leave the road to dodge a signal or sign
State law bars drivers from leaving the roadway and driving over private property in order to get around a traffic signal or a road sign.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — General Laws
7. At what point does Delaware law require you to switch to low beams for a vehicle coming toward you?
Correct answer: 500 feet before you meet it
The dimming distance is 500 feet for oncoming traffic. When you are trailing another vehicle, the low beams must go on within 200 feet of it.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Using Headlights
8. Which Delaware drivers may not use any electronic device at all, even a hands-free one?
Correct answer: Holders of a Graduated Driver License
The manual makes no exception for GDL holders. Every kind of phone or device use behind the wheel, hands-free included, is closed to them.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Cell Phone/Hand-Held Electronic Device Use While Driving
9. How far ahead of a turn does Delaware law require a driver to give a signal?
Correct answer: 300 feet
State law sets 300 feet as the minimum for a continuous hand or electrical signal, and the manual urges signaling even earlier when travel speeds are high.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Signaling
10. On which side must a Delaware driver normally overtake another vehicle?
Correct answer: On the left, and only where there is a safe distance in which to do it
Delaware directs vehicles to pass on the left at a safe distance and to move back over only once they are entirely clear of the vehicle they went by.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Overtaking (Passing) Other Vehicles
11. How may a Delaware driver holding an ordinary Class D license use a cell phone while driving?
Correct answer: Only through hands-free equipment, apart from dialing or switching the device on or off
Hand-held phones and texting are both outlawed. A driver may key in a number or turn the equipment on or off, then must put it down and talk hands-free.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Cell Phone/Hand-Held Electronic Device Use While Driving
12. What is required of a Delaware driver whose vehicle is being overtaken?
Correct answer: Give way to the right and hold your speed until the pass is finished
The law tells the overtaken driver to move right and not to build up speed until the other vehicle has completely gone by.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Overtaking (Passing) Other Vehicles
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