Turning — Colorado Permit Test

Turning on the Colorado permit test — 6 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.

The rules

When turning right you should turn from the right most part of your lane and as close to the curb as possible.

Hugging the curb leaves no gap for a bicycle or a car to slip up your inside. A wide right turn is where they get caught.

When turning right you should turn from the right most part of your lane and as close to the curb as possible.

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.12

When turning left you should be in the left side of your lane.

Starting from the left of your lane gives you the shortest path across the oncoming lanes, so you are exposed for less time.

When turning left you should be in the left side of your lane

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.12

To make a right turn you must begin in the right most lane.

Turning right from anywhere else cuts across a lane somebody is going straight in. It is the classic collision at a wide corner.

To make a right turn, you must begin in the right most lane

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.12

Complete your turn in the center of the correct lane on the new roadway, usually the lane closest to you on your side of the street.

Finishing in the wrong lane puts you beside somebody who was already there. The nearest lane is the one nobody else is turning into.

Complete your turn in the center of the correct lane on the new roadway — usually the lane closest to you on your side of the street

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.12

Avoid short turns that cut the corner, wide turns, late turns and straddling lanes.

Each of those four puts part of your car where another driver had every reason to expect empty road. They are the four ways a turn goes wrong.

Avoid short turns (cutting corners), wide turns, late turns and straddling lanes

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.13

Accelerate out of turns until you reach the speed limit or the flow of traffic.

Leaving a turn slowly holds up everybody behind and leaves you exposed in the intersection for longer than you need to be.

Accelerate out of turns until you reach the speed limit or flow of traffic

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.12

On the test

Where in the lane should a right turn start?

From the right most part, close to the curb. Hugging the curb leaves no gap for a bicycle or a car to slip up your inside. A wide right turn is where they get caught. Colorado Driver Handbook, p.12: “When turning right you should turn from the right most part of your lane and as close to the curb as possible.”

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Where these come from

Every rule here is checked against Colorado Driver Handbook, published by the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-16.