MPTC Motor Vehicle Investigations Test Exam REVIEW
2026/2027 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
• Windshield Size Up -✓✓ While in the vehicle identify damage and condition of vehicles,
potential injuries, need for additional resources, and identify hazards
• Final Resting position -✓✓ Where the vehicle comes to a complete stop after area of impact
• RESPECT model -✓✓ the model used in crash investigations
Respond to scene
Emergency care
Separate drivers, witnessess, victims
Protect scene
Evidence gathering
Take action and testify
• Patrol Car Postioning -✓✓ position the patrol car to protect scene, passing motorists, and first
responders, use emergency lights to warn approaching drivers
• Person in charge while on scene during emergency care for a crash -✓✓ highest ranking
FIREFIGHTER
• Chapter 85 -✓✓ Regulations for ways/ bridges
• Chapter 89 -✓✓ Laws of the road: turning, passing, lane usage, right of way, failure to stop
• Chapter 90 -✓✓ Motor Vehicles, includes leaving the scene of a crash, OUI
,• Two Types of Motor Vehicle violations -✓✓ 1. CMVI: minor infractions, with no provision for
arrest of imprisonment. 2. Criminal Violation: more serious, arrest or imprisonment
• USASIR model for warrantless arrest in presence -✓✓ (U)nlicensed operation, operating
(S)uspended license, use without (A)uthority, leaving the (S)cene, operating under (I)nfluence,
(R)efusal to submit.
• Three key elements for MV law -✓✓ motor vehicle, operation, public way, public access, or in
rare occasion private way
• Motor Vehicle definition -✓✓ all vehicles constructed for propulsion, by power rather than
muscular power eg. cars, trucks, motorcycles, atvs, snowmobiles
• operation -✓✓ a person is operating whenever they are inside the vehicle and intentionally
manipulate some mechanical or electrical part of the vehicle, which alone or in sequence will
set the vehicle in motion
• Public Way -✓✓ any street or highway open to the public and maintained by some sort of
government including mass highways, municipal streets and roads
• Public access -✓✓ all non ways in which the public has access and regularly drives motor
vehicles upon or public access by request eg parking lots, public parks
• Statute of limitations for most MV violations -✓✓ 6 years
• Delivering Citation -✓✓ officers should deliver citation immediately at the time of offense
impossible, ways to deliver include
1. in hand
2. Mail to violater
3. hand to agent
, • license types -✓✓ A, B, C, D, M *D most common
• Jr operator restrictions -✓✓ Cannot operate with any passenger under 18 unless, they are
family member, passenger has valid license, is 21 and has 1 year driving experience, operator is
emancipated and living alone.
• How many Days until you must notify RMV of your address change -✓✓ 30
• Prints -✓✓ are left behind when a rotating tire is not spinning or skidding and leaves tread
impressions in soft materials. Can determine direction of travel, and in some cases positively ID
vehicle
• skids -✓✓ are left behind when a tire loses traction and slides over a roadway or other
surface. Occurs when a wheel becomes locked by braking or jammed following a crash.
Determines speed, action, position in roadway, and travel path before collision.
• scuffs -✓✓ made by tires that are simultaneously rotating and side slipping caused by vehicles
are rapidly accelerating, have a flat or are overloaded
tires are rotating and sliding
• how many days does a new resident in Massachusetts have to register their vehicle in the
state -✓✓ 30
• how many days do owners have to get a newly registered vehicle inspected -✓✓ 7
• how many days do you have to repair a vehicle due to emissions failure in an inspection -✓✓
60 for mv
20 for motorcycle
2026/2027 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
• Windshield Size Up -✓✓ While in the vehicle identify damage and condition of vehicles,
potential injuries, need for additional resources, and identify hazards
• Final Resting position -✓✓ Where the vehicle comes to a complete stop after area of impact
• RESPECT model -✓✓ the model used in crash investigations
Respond to scene
Emergency care
Separate drivers, witnessess, victims
Protect scene
Evidence gathering
Take action and testify
• Patrol Car Postioning -✓✓ position the patrol car to protect scene, passing motorists, and first
responders, use emergency lights to warn approaching drivers
• Person in charge while on scene during emergency care for a crash -✓✓ highest ranking
FIREFIGHTER
• Chapter 85 -✓✓ Regulations for ways/ bridges
• Chapter 89 -✓✓ Laws of the road: turning, passing, lane usage, right of way, failure to stop
• Chapter 90 -✓✓ Motor Vehicles, includes leaving the scene of a crash, OUI
,• Two Types of Motor Vehicle violations -✓✓ 1. CMVI: minor infractions, with no provision for
arrest of imprisonment. 2. Criminal Violation: more serious, arrest or imprisonment
• USASIR model for warrantless arrest in presence -✓✓ (U)nlicensed operation, operating
(S)uspended license, use without (A)uthority, leaving the (S)cene, operating under (I)nfluence,
(R)efusal to submit.
• Three key elements for MV law -✓✓ motor vehicle, operation, public way, public access, or in
rare occasion private way
• Motor Vehicle definition -✓✓ all vehicles constructed for propulsion, by power rather than
muscular power eg. cars, trucks, motorcycles, atvs, snowmobiles
• operation -✓✓ a person is operating whenever they are inside the vehicle and intentionally
manipulate some mechanical or electrical part of the vehicle, which alone or in sequence will
set the vehicle in motion
• Public Way -✓✓ any street or highway open to the public and maintained by some sort of
government including mass highways, municipal streets and roads
• Public access -✓✓ all non ways in which the public has access and regularly drives motor
vehicles upon or public access by request eg parking lots, public parks
• Statute of limitations for most MV violations -✓✓ 6 years
• Delivering Citation -✓✓ officers should deliver citation immediately at the time of offense
impossible, ways to deliver include
1. in hand
2. Mail to violater
3. hand to agent
, • license types -✓✓ A, B, C, D, M *D most common
• Jr operator restrictions -✓✓ Cannot operate with any passenger under 18 unless, they are
family member, passenger has valid license, is 21 and has 1 year driving experience, operator is
emancipated and living alone.
• How many Days until you must notify RMV of your address change -✓✓ 30
• Prints -✓✓ are left behind when a rotating tire is not spinning or skidding and leaves tread
impressions in soft materials. Can determine direction of travel, and in some cases positively ID
vehicle
• skids -✓✓ are left behind when a tire loses traction and slides over a roadway or other
surface. Occurs when a wheel becomes locked by braking or jammed following a crash.
Determines speed, action, position in roadway, and travel path before collision.
• scuffs -✓✓ made by tires that are simultaneously rotating and side slipping caused by vehicles
are rapidly accelerating, have a flat or are overloaded
tires are rotating and sliding
• how many days does a new resident in Massachusetts have to register their vehicle in the
state -✓✓ 30
• how many days do owners have to get a newly registered vehicle inspected -✓✓ 7
• how many days do you have to repair a vehicle due to emissions failure in an inspection -✓✓
60 for mv
20 for motorcycle
