District of Columbia driving lesson · Driving Rules: Turns, Passing & Lights
U-turns, turnabouts & keeping right
A 2-minute lesson from the District of Columbia course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Sometimes you need to turn around, on a dead-end street or during your road test. DC restricts U-turns where others can't see you or where signals control traffic, and teaches a three-point turnabout.
Know the rule
Keep to the right, except when overtaking and passing a vehicle or cyclist, or making a left turn.
You've missed a turn and reach a signalized intersection. A U-turn there is illegal in DC. Continue to a side street with a clear view and no No U-Turn sign, or use the three-point turnabout on a quiet street.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
Under the 'keep to the right' rule, when may you leave the right side of the road?
Only on one-way streets
Only on divided highways
Never; you must always stay right
To pass, or to make a left turn
Answer: To pass, or to make a left turn
You should keep right except when passing a vehicle or cyclist, or when making a left turn.
