If you want to get off the freeway but you have missed your exit, you should:

1. Go to the next exit. ✓
2. Make a U-turn through the median.
3. Pull onto the shoulder and back your car to the exit.
4. Flag down a police officer for an escort back to your exit.

Answer: A. Go to the next exit.

If you miss your freeway exit, you must go to the next exit.

Why this is the answer

The handbook's section on leaving a limited access highway says not to make last-minute turns into an exit, and that if you pass your exit you have to take the next one. Exits are usually off the right lane, so the safe routine is to signal early, move into the exit lane, and slow down in the deceleration lane. Once the exit is behind you, the only supported choice is to keep going and leave at the next one.

Why the other answers are wrong

• B. Make a U-turn through the median. — Turning around through the median is not described anywhere in the handbook as a way to leave a limited access highway.
• C. Pull onto the shoulder and back your car to the exit. — Backing up on the shoulder is not a listed exit procedure; the handbook only tells you to continue to the next exit.
• D. Flag down a police officer for an escort back to your exit. — The handbook gives no procedure for flagging down an officer to escort you back to a missed exit.

Remember it

Treat a missed exit as a decision already made: your next exit is the one you take.