Delaware Permit Test: Safe Driving Practice Questions

Correct answer: Visibility under 1,000 feet or wipers on

Headlights are required after sunset or before sunrise, whenever you can’t see beyond 1,000 feet, and when wipers are on.

Source: Section Three – Using Headlights

Correct answer: 500 feet

Switch to low beams 500 feet before meeting another vehicle or when within 200 feet of the vehicle you follow.

Source: Section Three – Using Headlights

Correct answer: 200 feet

Use low beams when within 200 feet of the vehicle you are following.

Source: Section Three – Using Headlights

Correct answer: All occupants

Delaware law requires all occupants to be properly restrained; officers may stop a vehicle for unbuckled occupants.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: The driver

The driver receives a ticket for any unrestrained or improperly restrained occupant.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: Under 2 and 30 pounds

Children under age 2 and 30 pounds must ride in a rear-facing car seat.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: Under 4 and 40 pounds

Children under age 4 and 40 pounds must ride in a harnessed car seat.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: Under 12 or under 5’5”

A child under 12 or under 5’5” should not occupy the front passenger seat (with exceptions in the code).

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: Yes, it is not proper use

Putting the shoulder belt under your arm or behind you can cause serious injury and could result in a ticket.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: In front of an active frontal air bag

Never install a rear-facing car seat in front of an active frontal air bag.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: No more than one inch

A car seat should not move more than one inch side-to-side and front-to-back at the belt path.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: Even with the child’s armpits

The chest clip should be even with the child’s armpits.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: 25 miles

Over half of all traffic deaths happen within 25 miles of home, many on roads posted under 45 mph.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: Pedaling a bike full speed into a brick wall

Even at 25 mph, a head-on crash equals pedaling a bicycle full-speed into a brick wall or diving off a three-story building.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints

Correct answer: About 122 degrees

One study found that at 94 degrees outside a closed car could reach 122 degrees in half an hour, 132 after an hour.

Source: Section Five – Safety Belts and Child Restraints