Drop offs — Kansas Permit Test

A Kansas driver should avoid panic steering when the wheels leave the pavement, in which they try to return to the pavement as soon as the wheels leave it.

Jerking back onto the road is what turns a dropped wheel into a rollover. Slowing first is the whole technique.

Avoid panic steering, in which you try to return to the pavement as soon as your wheels leave the pavement.

After leaving the Kansas pavement a driver eases off the accelerator, applies the brakes gently rather than hard, steers straight ahead and slows to 25 mph or less.

Hard braking on a soft shoulder drags the car sideways. Twenty-five is slow enough to come back up safely.

Steer straight ahead and slow to 25 mph or less.

A Kansas driver returning to the pavement turns the steering wheel about one quarter-turn when there is a gap in traffic from all directions, and must not oversteer.

A quarter turn is all it takes at low speed. More than that sends you across the road.

turn the steering wheel about one quarter-turn to return to the pavement. DO NOT OVERSTEER.

If Kansas traffic is heavy when a driver leaves the road and the shoulder is wide, they drive entirely onto the shoulder and stop, waiting for a large gap before reentering.

Trying to rejoin heavy traffic from the grass is worse than stopping. Wait for room you can actually use.

If traffic is heavy when you leave the road and the shoulder is wide, drive entirely onto the shoulder and stop. Wait for a large gap in traffic before you reenter.

What does Kansas say to avoid when the wheels leave the pavement?

Panic steering back onto the pavement at once. Jerking back onto the road is what turns a dropped wheel into a rollover. Slowing first is the whole technique. Kansas Driving Handbook, p.76: “Avoid panic steering, in which you try to return to the pavement as soon as your wheels leave the pavement.”