When you drive in an area where children are playing, you should
- slow down and be prepared to stop ✓
- turn on your high beam lights
- move to the left of your lane and maintain speed
- pull over and stop until the children have gone
Answer: A. slow down and be prepared to stop
When you drive where children are playing, slow down and be ready to stop.
Why this is the answer
The handbook treats areas where children are present as places to reduce speed. The sign list says a playground sign means be prepared to slow down and a school zone sign means reduce speed when children are present, and the section on cul-de-sacs in residential areas tells you to watch carefully for children playing. Nothing in those passages says you must halt or change lanes, so the safe response is to ease off the gas and keep your foot ready to brake.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. turn on your high beam lights — High beam lights are not mentioned for these areas, and the passages give no reason to change your lighting when children are nearby.
- C. move to the left of your lane and maintain speed — Shifting to the left of your lane and holding your speed ignores the handbook's advice to reduce speed where children are present.
- D. pull over and stop until the children have gone — The passages say to slow down and watch for children, not to pull over and wait until they have all left.
Remember it
Think of a playground sign as a brake signal: foot off the gas, foot covering the brake.