Work zones — California Permit Test

Go through a work zone carefully by slowing down, allowing extra space between vehicles, and expecting sudden slowing or stopping.

The lane markings, the lane widths and the traffic all change from one day to the next.

Go through the work zone carefully by:

Cones, drums or other barriers guide you through a work zone, and you merge as soon as it is safe without crossing them.

Driving over a cone is driving into the space the workers are standing in.

Cones, drums, or other barriers will guide you through the work zone.

Obey special signs and instructions from workers such as flaggers, and watch for bicycles if lanes are narrow or the shoulder is closed.

The flagger knows which way the traffic is running today, and the sign was painted last month.

Obey special signs or instructions from workers such as flaggers.

Fines for traffic violations in a work zone can be $1,000 or more.

The fine is set that high because a mistake there lands on somebody standing in the road.

Fines for traffic violations in a work zone can be $1,000 or more.

Anyone convicted of assaulting a highway worker faces fines of up to $2,000 and imprisonment for up to one year.

The people fixing the road have nowhere to retreat to, and the law treats them accordingly.

Anyone convicted of assaulting a highway worker faces fines of up to $2,000 and imprisonment for up to one year.

Certain roads are chosen as Safety Enhanced-Double Fine Zones because of increased collision-related injuries and fatalities, and fines are doubled there.

Those stretches were picked because of what has already happened on them.

Certain roads are chosen as Safety Enhanced-Double Fine Zones. This is due to increased collision-related injuries and fatalities.

Fines are doubled in highway construction or maintenance zones when workers are present.

The doubling switches on and off with the people, which is exactly who it is protecting.

Fines are also doubled in highway construction or maintenance zones when workers are present.

Drivers must move over and slow down for stationary emergency vehicles and tow trucks displaying flashing amber warning lights, and for stopped road work vehicles displaying emergency or amber warning lights.

The person working beside that truck has traffic passing an arm’s length behind them.

Drivers must move over and slow down for emergency and road work vehicles.

How should you drive through a work zone?

Slowly, with extra space around you. The lane markings, the lane widths and the traffic all change from one day to the next. California Driver’s Handbook, p.49: “Go through the work zone carefully by:”