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Requirements summarized from the official Alabama driver handbook.
Restrictions: Drive with licensed driver 21+ in front seat
Restrictions: No driving midnight-6am; no more than one non-family passenger; no handheld devices
Restrictions: None
Alabama law requires every occupant, regardless of age, to be restrained in both front and back seats. Children through age 15 must use the required size-appropriate child restraint or seat belt; violations result in a fine and points on the driver’s record.
Never drive faster than is reasonable for current road, weather, vehicle, and physical conditions. Under normal conditions, obey statutory limits or limits posted on official regulatory signs; municipal speed limits are maximum speeds.
In Alabama, persons under 21 years of age may not operate or be in actual physical control of a vehicle with a blood alcohol content of .02% or more. The law also prohibits writing, sending or reading a text message, instant message or e-mail while operating a motor vehicle; fines are $25, $50 and $75 for first, second and third or subsequent offenses, plus a two-point violation for each offense.
Stop when following or meeting a stopped school or church bus with flashing red lights and its stop arm extended, including on a four to six lane undivided highway; this is not required when meeting the bus on the opposing roadway of a divided highway having four or more lanes as described in the handbook. Yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, and slow down and watch for children at school crossings.
When approaching a stopped emergency vehicle with flashing emergency lights or a wrecker with flashing amber lights on a roadway with four or more lanes, leave the closest lane; if that is unsafe or impossible, slow to at least 15 miles per hour below the posted limit. On a two-lane road, move as far away as possible within your lane and slow to 15 miles per hour below a limit of 25 miles per hour or greater, or travel 10 miles per hour when the limit is 20 miles per hour or less.
At roundabouts, yield to pedestrians, bicyclists, and traffic already circulating to your left; vehicles already in the roundabout have the right-of-way.
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