U-turns in business districts
A free practice question for the California permit test, with the answer explained.
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Where may you make a U-turn in a business district?
The rule
In a business district, U-turns are allowed only at intersections (with a green light or arrow and no sign banning them) or at an opening in a divided highway, never mid-block.
In a business district, U-turns are allowed only at intersections or at openings in a divided highway, and never where a sign bans them.
From the California Driver Handbook, section 6, page 20. This question is our own wording of that rule. The handbook and the DMV have the final word.
Often mixed up with
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