Officer Jenni Eby
Wyoming Department of Public Safety
Welcome to the Traffic Tuesday question. Each week, the question will be posted on Tuesday, and the answer posted Thursday.
It’s getting darker earlier in the evening, so we’re going to take a look at headlight laws this week.
Question: It’s 9p.m., and a driver is leaving his or her house. Which lights are legal for them to have lit on their vehicle while driving?
- Just headlights
- Headlights and fog lights
- Just foglights
- 1 and 2
- I’m not sure I’ll check back tomorrow
The answer is 4) 1, Just headlights and 2, headlights and fog lights. Just fog lights are not sufficient lighting to drive on the roadway, according to MCL 257.696. That statute states that fog lights are to only light 25 feet in front of a vehicle, and be angled downward. Head lamps, according to 257.699, need to illuminate 100 feet in front of a vehicle when on low beams!
