MPTC Motor Vehicle Investigations Test Exam
2026/2027 UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• how many days do you have to transfer a registration to a newly purchased vehicle -
✓✓ 7
• 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
• buses and vehicles carrying hazardous loads must stop how many feet before a
railroad -✓✓ no less than 15 feet and no more than 50 ft
2026/2027 UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• how many days do you have to transfer a registration to a newly purchased vehicle -
✓✓ 7
• 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
• buses and vehicles carrying hazardous loads must stop how many feet before a
railroad -✓✓ no less than 15 feet and no more than 50 ft
