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West Virginia Car / Permit: Speed & Space Management practice test
Choosing a safe speed, keeping a space cushion, adjusting for weather and traffic, and understanding stopping distance.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. In which situation does the handbook say you should slow down?
Correct answer: When you are approaching the top of a hill
The list of situations calling for a lower speed includes approaching and going around a curve, nearing the top of a hill, traveling a narrow road, and crossing intersections.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Basic Speed Law
2. How far beyond the school grounds does a West Virginia school zone reach along the abutting road?
Correct answer: One hundred and twenty-five feet
A school zone covers the school property and grounds plus one hundred and twenty-five feet of the street or highway that abuts them.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Speed Limits
3. Where should you shed speed before leaving an interstate?
Correct answer: In the deceleration lane, not on the interstate
The handbook says never to slow on the interstate itself; hold your speed until the deceleration lane, and only then brake softly down to the ramp's posted speed.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VII, Exit Lanes
4. How large should your following gap be when it is dark or raining?
Correct answer: At least four seconds
The handbook stretches the usual count to at least four seconds once darkness or rain is involved.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Following Distance
5. What is the slowest you should normally travel on a West Virginia interstate?
Correct answer: Fifty-five miles per hour
The handbook tells drivers not to go below fifty-five miles per hour on an interstate unless weather or road conditions are poor or a lower limit has been posted.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VII, Speeds on Interstates
6. What maximum speed does West Virginia designate for interstate highways absent other posting?
Correct answer: Seventy miles per hour
The table gives interstates a maximum of seventy miles per hour unless a different limit is posted.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Speed Limits
7. What is the designated speed limit in a West Virginia school zone while children are present?
Correct answer: Fifteen miles per hour
Where children are present along the roadway, the designated limit for a school zone is fifteen miles per hour unless something else is posted.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Speed Limits
8. How does the handbook tell you to measure your following distance?
Correct answer: Pick a fixed roadside object and count off three to four seconds
Pick a fixed object beside the road, and when the vehicle in front reaches it start counting; reaching the object before you finish the three-count means you are too close.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Following Distance
9. What speed does West Virginia designate for an open county highway when nothing else is posted?
Correct answer: Fifty-five miles per hour
The designated limit for an open county highway is fifty-five miles per hour unless a different figure is posted.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Speed Limits
10. Which type of crash does following too closely cause most often?
Correct answer: Rear-end collisions
The handbook opens its discussion of following distance by naming rear-end collisions as the usual result of driving too close.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Following Distance
11. Unless signs say otherwise, what is the designated limit in West Virginia business or residential areas?
Correct answer: Twenty-five miles per hour
The handbook's table of designated limits sets business and residential areas at twenty-five miles per hour.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Speed Limits
12. A vehicle behind you is following far too closely. What does the handbook suggest?
Correct answer: Tap the brakes gently, slow to invite a pass, and pull over if needed
Tap the brake pedal gently to flash your brake lights, ease off to encourage the driver past, and if nothing works pull over and let the vehicle go by.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, Tailgating
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