Yellow pavement markings — Minnesota Permit Test
Yellow pavement markings on the Minnesota permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Yellow lines separate traffic moving in opposite directions.
Yellow on your left means the traffic beyond it is coming at you.
Yellow lines separate traffic moving in opposite directions.
A solid yellow line means you must not pass, and passing in a no-passing zone is illegal.
The line is drawn where the sight distance is too short for a pass to finish safely.
Solid yellow line: You must not pass. Passing in a no-passing zone is illegal.
Yellow dashes mean you may pass.
The broken line marks the stretch where you can see far enough to get back in.
Yellow dashes: You may pass.
Where the center line is solid on one side and dashed on the other, you obey the marking in your own lane.
The two sides of the road do not have the same view, so they do not get the same rule.
Mixed lines (solid and dashes): A solid yellow line may appear on one side of the roadway while a line of dashes appears on the other side. You must obey the marking in your lane of traffic.
Double solid yellow lines mean you must not pass, whichever side of the line you are driving on.
Neither direction can see far enough, so neither one gets to try.
Double solid yellow lines: You must not pass, regardless of which side of the line you are driving.
On the test
What do yellow lines separate?
Traffic moving in opposite directions. Yellow on your left means the traffic beyond it is coming at you. Minnesota Driver’s Manual, p.68: “Yellow lines separate traffic moving in opposite directions.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Minnesota Driver’s Manual, published by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-22.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MN.pdf (Minnesota Driver’s Manual, May 2025, Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Driver and Vehicle Services, retrieved 2026-09-14; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MN.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json, MN entry -- the folio offset of 3 and its basis, the folio marker, the extraction-flag score and the welded compounds it costs, and the record of where the exam shape comes from