EVALUATION VERIFIED A+
◉ Operator. Answer: A person who is in actual physical control of a
vehicle
◉ Highway Answer: Means the entire width between property lines
of every way or place of any nature when any part of it is open to the
use of the public as a matter of right for vehicular travel
◉ Divided highway Answer: A highway divided into two or more
roadways by an unpaved intervening space, a physical barrier or a
clearly indicated dividing section constructed to impede vehicular
traffic
◉ Intersection Answer: •The area embraced within the prolongation
or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral
boundary lines of the roadways of two or more highways which join
one another
•Where a highway includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart
every crossing of each roadway of the divided highway by an
intersecting highway is a separate intersection; and if the
intersecting highway also includes two roadways 30 feet or more
,apart, then every crossing of two roadways of the highways is a
separate intersection
•"Intersection" does not include the junction of an alley with a street
or highway
◉ Motor vehicle Answer: •A vehicle which is self-propelled and
every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from
overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails
•"Motor vehicle" does not include vehicles moved solely by human
power, motorized wheelchairs, or an electric personal assistive
mobility device
◉ Roadway Answer: •That portion of highway improved, designed,
or ordinarily used for vehicular travel
•"Roadway" does not include the sidewalk, berm, or shoulder, even
though any of them are used by persons riding bicycles or other
human-powered vehicles
•"Roadway" refers to any roadway separately but not to all roadways
collectively, if a highway includes two or more separate roadways
,◉ School bus Answer: •A motor vehicle that complies with the color
and identification requirements of the most recent edition of
"Minimum Standards for School Buses" and is used to transport
school children to or from school or school activities
•"School bus" does not include a vehicle operated by a common
carrier in transportation of school children to or from school or
school activities
◉ Pedestrian Answer: A person traveling on foot or in a wheelchair
◉ primary reasons for regulation of traffic Answer: ♦Prevention of
traffic accidents
♦ Facilitate traffic flow
◉ the ramifications for non enforcement of traffic laws Answer: ♦
Increased highway fatalities and injuries
♦ Increased property damage
♦ Poor image of police
♦ Impediment of traffic flow
◉ The cadet will identify the difference in criminal intent for most
traffic violations and criminal offenses as: Answer: intent does not
have to be proven for most traffic offenses.
, ◉ criminal negligence Answer: •A person engages in conduct with
criminal negligence or is criminally negligent with respect to
circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct
when he ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk
that the circumstances exist or the result will occur
•The risk must be of a nature and degree that the failure to perceive
it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an
ordinary person would exercise in all the circumstances as viewed
from the actor's standpoint
◉ Negligent homicide Answer: •Criminal homicide constitutes
negligent homicide if the actor, acting with criminal negligence,
causes the death of another
◉ the penalties associated with violations of the traffic code.
Answer: A violation of any provision of the traffic code is an
infraction, unless otherwise provided
◉ Circumstances where a driver license will not be issued Answer:
•A person younger than 16 years of age
•Applicant has not completed a course in driver training approved
by the Commissioner of Department of Public Safety