1. RULES OF THE ROAD CHAPTER 3
TRAFFIC LAWS
RULES OF THE ROAD
CHAPTER 3

2. Traffic Laws
Safety
Right of Way
Lane Usage
Special Stops
Parking

3. Safety – Seat Belts Seat Belts – Active Restraints Laws -- $75 fine
All drivers and front seat passengers
All passengers under 19 (anywhere – 1/1/06)
Nationwide – “Click it or Ticket”
Restrictions specific for You
# of passengers must equal the # of seatbelts
EXCLUSION – siblings and people over 20
New Law – During the first six months, new drivers can only have 1 other person in the car with them.

5. Safety -- Projectiles Hidden Dangers in Your Car – Reader’s Digest
“Researcher determined that the risk of death for front-seat passenger rose 400% when some one in the back was not wearing a seat belt.”
Masao Ichikawa, U. of Tokyo
“…many injuries and deaths aren’t the results of the collisions, but of unrestrained cargo, pets, and passengers.”
NHTSA Website
“A front seat passenger becomes a crude airbag for a person in back,”
Charles Hurley, National Safety Council

6. Safety – Airbags
Passive Restraint

7. Safety – Airbags

8. Safety – Speed Maximum Minimum Left Lane Law
What is the REAL speed limit?
What if you miss a speed limit sign?
Minimum
Expressways
Why?
Left Lane Law
In order to drive in the left lane of multi-lane expressways, you must be passing another vehicle.

9. Are you going the Speed Limit?

10. Safety – Cell Phones Illinois allows communities to ban usage
No one under 18 can use while driving
Distract Drivers from the driving task
Are Headsets or Hand Free devices safer?

11. Safety – Cell Phones

12. Safety – Cell Phones

13. Right of Way
Yield the Right of Way – give the Right of Way to another driver
Situations when you must Yield
Vehicles
Pedestrians

14. Right of Way Vehicles Right turn on Red Yield signs Stop signs
All-way
Side roads
Left turns
Reduction in lanes
6. Fresh green lights
7. Funeral processions
8. Construction zones
9. Police and other emergency vehicles

15. Right of Way
We are waiting to turn right on red, the car approaching from our left has its right turn signal on. Is it safe to go? Why or why not?
Why is it important to scan the intersection when we have a stop sign facing us?
We are sitting at a red light when the light turns green. Is it safe to go? Why or why not?

16. Right of Way Pedestrians
Intersections/Crosswalks – walk signal and green light for all traffic moving in the same direction
Look for people when you are turning left or right on a green light
Turning onto a side road
Emerging from an alley or driveway
In between parked cars

17. Lane Usage Passing On the Right Procedure Multi-lane roads
Additional lane to the right
Illegal to cross a solid white line in order to pass on the right
Procedure
Mirror, Blinker, Blindspot (MBB)

18. Lane Usage Passing On the Left Three questions No passing situations
Safe? Legal? Worthwhile?
No passing situations
Curves. Solid yellow line. Road widens.
Can you exceed the speed limit?

19. Lane Usage – Passing

20. Lane Usage Signals Turns Business/Residential – 100 ft.
Rural – 200 ft.
Turns
Right turns
Left turns
Always turn from the closest to the closest

21. Lane Usage
Is it legal to pass on the shoulder? What if the shoulder is wide and paved?
What are the 3 questions we should ask ourselves before starting to pass?

22. Special Stops School buses
Amber and red lights flashing and stop arm extended you must stop.
Exception – cars traveling on the opposite side of a divided highway
Penalties
First offense -- $150 and a 3 month suspension
Second offense -- $500 and a year suspension

23. Special Stops Railroad Warning signs
Advanced Warning Sign
Crossbuck = Active Tracks
You must stop between 15 and 50 feet
Penalties
$500 or 50 hours of community service

24. Special Stops Railroad Going around the gates
4. Ways to violate the law at a RR
Going around the gates
Running thru the flashing red lights before the gates go down
Going after the gates start to raise and before the red light stop flashing
Pedestrians

25. Parking Parallel Parking Handicapped Parking
Vehicles must be parked in the direction of traffic
Tires must be within 12 inches of the curb
Handicapped Parking
You must have…
Handicapped license plate or placard
A physical disability
Penalties
$100-$250

26. Is this car parked legally?

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