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West Virginia Motorcycle: Traffic Laws & Signals 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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12 sample Traffic Laws & Signals questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the official handbook reference. Read through them, then take the quiz above.
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1. When does West Virginia require headlights to be switched on?
Correct answer: From sunset to sunrise, and whenever people and vehicles cannot be seen clearly at 500 feet
From sunset until sunrise, in fog, smoke or rain, and any other time people and vehicles cannot be made out clearly at five hundred feet.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Headlights and Their Use
2. Where does West Virginia prohibit changing lanes?
Correct answer: Inside an intersection, or at a railroad crossing
Lane changes are not to be made inside an intersection, nor at a railroad crossing, and every change begins with mirrors, a head check and a signal.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Changing Lanes
3. What does West Virginia impose on a first offense of passing a stopped school bus with its red lights flashing?
Correct answer: A suspension of at least 60 days and a fine of at least $500
A first offense brings at least sixty days of license suspension and a fine of no less than five hundred dollars, or up to six months in jail.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, School Bus Rules
4. Children are present along the roadway in a West Virginia school zone. What is the limit?
Correct answer: 15 mph
Fifteen miles an hour applies while children are present, and the zone runs one hundred twenty-five feet along the street from the school grounds.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Speed Limits
5. Unless a sign says otherwise, what is the top speed on a West Virginia interstate?
Correct answer: 70 mph
State law designates seventy miles an hour as the maximum for interstate travel unless posted differently.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Speed Limits
6. What speed does West Virginia designate for an open county highway where nothing is posted?
Correct answer: 55 mph
Open county highways carry a designated limit of fifty-five miles an hour unless signs set something different.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Speed Limits
7. Ice or snow is on the road. How much space does the handbook want behind the vehicle ahead?
Correct answer: At least six seconds
On ice or snow the gap grows to at least six seconds, up from the three to four seconds used in ordinary conditions.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Following Distance
8. Which rule does West Virginia give for judging your following distance?
Correct answer: The three-to-four second rule
Pick a fixed object, count as the vehicle ahead passes it, and keep three to four seconds of space; stretch it to at least four seconds when dark or raining.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Following Distance
9. Within what distance of an oncoming vehicle must high beams be dimmed in West Virginia?
Correct answer: 500 feet
Dim within five hundred feet of a vehicle coming toward you, and within two hundred feet of one you are following.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Headlights and Their Use
10. How far before a turn does West Virginia want your signal running?
Correct answer: At least 100 feet
The handbook asks for a signal at least one hundred feet ahead of the turn, and for it to be switched off once the turn is done.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Driving Signals
11. Besides intersections and railroad crossings, within one hundred feet of what else is passing prohibited?
Correct answer: A bridge, viaduct, tunnel or underpass
The hundred-foot rule also covers bridges, viaducts, tunnels and underpasses, on top of intersections and rail crossings.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Passing
12. What is the designated limit in West Virginia business or residential areas?
Correct answer: 25 mph
Business and residential districts carry a designated limit of twenty-five miles an hour.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Speed Limits
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