According to the handbook, which situation is one where passing is unsafe and usually illegal?
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A.
Driving behind a funeral procession on a highway marked for two or more lanes in the same direction.
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B.
Driving past farm equipment that has pulled off at the nearest practical location so traffic can pass.
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C.
Driving toward a funeral procession from the opposite direction on a two-lane road.
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D.
Driving behind a funeral procession heading the same direction on a two-lane road. Correct
The answer is "Driving behind a funeral procession heading the same direction on a two-lane road."
The handbook says a driver traveling in the same direction as a funeral procession shall not pass or attempt to pass it, with one narrow exception when the highway is marked for two or more lanes in that same direction. Choice A names the exact carve-out the handbook grants, so a reader who skims the rule and stops reading at 'two or more lanes' picks the one setting where passing is actually permitted.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Driving behind a funeral procession on a highway marked for two or more lanes in the same direction.
The handbook's own exception permits passing a funeral procession when the highway is marked for two or more lanes in the same direction as the procession. Picks the one setting the manual explicitly carves out as the exception, treating that carve-out as the general rule.
B. Driving past farm equipment that has pulled off at the nearest practical location so traffic can pass.
The manual calls this the only advisable time to pass farm equipment on public roads, not a prohibited situation. Confuses the manual's one advised time to pass farm equipment with a no-passing scenario by remembering only the general warning about farm equipment.
C. Driving toward a funeral procession from the opposite direction on a two-lane road.
The manual says an opposite-direction driver may yield to the procession, by slowing or pulling off, but passing is not prohibited. Reads the voluntary opposite-direction courtesy as a mandatory no-pass rule, swapping which direction the restriction applies to.
This question tests your knowledge of Passing in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Funeral Processions," p.52..
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