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New Mexico: Emergency vehicles and work areas Practice Test

Yielding to emergency vehicles and driving through work areas with flaggers and warning signs.

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Questions are original and based on the official manual "New Mexico Driver Manual" (Version 11.19.19), New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division (MVD).

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  1. Which of these is one of the warnings given by work area signs?

    Top view of a two-lane road where cones close the right lane for a work zone, with a work truck and two workers; your blue car approaches.
    • Falling rocks from hillsides
    • Poor or suddenly changing road surfaces
    • Animals crossing the roadway
    • Parking restrictions for the area
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    Correct answer: Poor or suddenly changing road surfaces

    Work area signs warn of reduced speed, detours, slow moving construction equipment and poor or suddenly changing road surfaces.

    Source: ⁨New Mexico Driver Manual (Version 11.19.19)⁩, page 6

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  2. In a work area, traffic may be controlled by a person with a sign or flag. What must you do?

    A person in an orange vest holds a red octagonal STOP sign on a pole beside a two-lane road with orange cones, an orange truck and a kneeling worker.
    • Obey only if the person is a police officer
    • Follow only the posted signs instead
    • Treat the person's directions as suggestions
    • Obey that person
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    Correct answer: Obey that person

    In work areas traffic may be controlled by a person with a sign or flag, and you must obey these people.

    Source: ⁨New Mexico Driver Manual (Version 11.19.19)⁩, page 6

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  3. You see or hear an emergency vehicle approaching from any direction. What must you do?

    An ambulance with flashing lights and its siren sounding coming up behind a blue car and a green car on a two-lane road
    • Stop immediately where you are, even in the middle of a lane
    • Pull over to the left edge of the road to leave the right clear
    • Slow down and continue driving in the center of your lane
    • Pull over to the right edge of the road or as near to it as possible
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    Correct answer: Pull over to the right edge of the road or as near to it as possible

    You must yield the right-of-way and pull over to the right edge of the road, or as near to the right as possible, when an emergency vehicle approaches from any direction.

    Source: ⁨New Mexico Driver Manual (Version 11.19.19)⁩, page 12

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  4. You are in an intersection when an emergency vehicle approaches. What should you do?

    Top view of a city intersection with green traffic lights: a blue car is midway across the intersection, a white car waits on the cross street, and a fire truck comes up the street behind the blue car.
    • Drive through the intersection before you pull over
    • Stop where you are in the middle of the intersection
    • Pull over immediately inside the intersection
    • Back up out of the intersection
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    Correct answer: Drive through the intersection before you pull over

    If you are in an intersection when an emergency vehicle approaches, you should drive through the intersection before you pull over.

    Source: ⁨New Mexico Driver Manual (Version 11.19.19)⁩, page 12

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