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Highway drivingQuestion 173 of 309

What is the first step when you pass a vehicle?

  1. Move close behind it
  2. Signal and move left at once
  3. Stay back, not close behind it
  4. Accelerate to full speed
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Correct answer: Stay back, not close behind it

Stay back from the vehicle ahead. If you are close, you cannot see the road ahead and you may have no time to move back in.

Source: New Brunswick Driver's Handbook (Government of New Brunswick, 2022), 4.9 Passing, page 38

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Questions last reviewed: 18 October 2026