Passing — Kansas Permit Test

On Kansas two-lane roads with traffic moving in both directions, you may pass on the left if the pass can be completed safely and without exceeding the speed limit.

You cannot speed to get past. If the pass needs more than the limit allows, it is not a pass you can make.

you may pass traffic on the left if the pass can be completed safely and without exceeding the speed limit.

A Kansas driver turns on the left-turn signal before passing and uses the right-turn signal after passing before returning to the right lane.

Two signals, one for each half of the move. Drivers behind need to know you are pulling out and coming back.

Turn on your left-turn signal before passing. Use your right-turn signal after passing before returning to the right lane.

A Kansas driver does not return to the right lane too soon after passing, and waits until the entire front of the passed vehicle is visible in the rearview mirror.

Cutting back early takes away the other driver's stopping room. The mirror tells you when you are truly clear.

Do not return to the right lane too soon; wait until you can see the entire front of the vehicle you have just passed in your rearview mirror.

Passing is prohibited in Kansas within 100 feet of crossing any intersection or railroad grade crossing.

Cars and trains enter from the side at a crossing. Being alongside another vehicle there leaves you nowhere to go.

Within 100 feet of crossing any intersection or railroad grade crossing.

Passing is prohibited in Kansas within 100 feet of a bridge, viaduct or tunnel if your view is obstructed.

These places have no shoulder to escape onto. If you cannot see through or past, there is no room for a mistake.

Within 100 feet of a bridge, viaduct, or tunnel if your view is obstructed.

Passing is prohibited in Kansas within 100 feet of an emergency vehicle that is stopped on the side of the roadway with its emergency lights on.

People are working beside that vehicle. Passing there puts a car alongside them at speed.

Within 100 feet of an emergency vehicle that is stopped on the side of the roadway and has its emergency lights on.

A Kansas driver may not pass where there is a solid yellow line on their side of the centerline.

The solid line on your side is the state telling you the view ahead is too short. It is not a suggestion.

Where there is a solid yellow line on your side of the centerline.

In Kansas a double solid yellow line prohibits traffic in both directions from crossing the centerline.

Neither side may cross it. Two solid lines mean the road has no safe passing view either way.

A double solid yellow line prohibits traffic in both directions from crossing the centerline.

A Kansas driver must return to their driving lane before coming within 200 feet of any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction.

Two cars closing on each other cover ground fast. Two hundred feet is the margin the law leaves you.

You must return to your driving lane before coming within 200 feet of any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction.

When a Kansas driver's car is being overtaken, they stay in their lane and do not increase speed.

Speeding up traps the passing driver alongside you with oncoming traffic coming on. Holding steady lets them finish.

When your car is being overtaken, stay in your lane and don't increase speed:

What does Kansas require of a pass on a two-lane road?

It is completed safely and without exceeding the speed limit. You cannot speed to get past. If the pass needs more than the limit allows, it is not a pass you can make. Kansas Driving Handbook, p.17: “you may pass traffic on the left if the pass can be completed safely and without exceeding the speed limit.”