Walk It Through: The New Driver
A learner's permit at fourteen, practice hours, a restricted permit, friends in the car, and a phone.
A fourteen-year-old passes the written test and gets an instruction permit. A parent wants to let the teen drive home from practice at night.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One teen's first year of driving. A motorcycle permit, farm machinery, a ticket that delays the restricted permit and insurance rates are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Class 2 misdemeanorThe lesser misdemeanor class, with a maximum of thirty days in a county jail or a $500 fine, or both.
- Mobile electronic deviceA phone or similar device a driver may not use while operating a vehicle, apart from calls, navigation, hands-free use and emergencies.
- Instruction permitThe first permit a teen holds, from fourteen years of age, allowing driving only with a licensed adult in the seat beside, and no wireless device at all.
- Restricted minor's permitThe permit a teen holds after the instruction permit, allowing driving by day with a parent's permission, at night only with a parent beside, and with passenger limits.