Arkansas (AR) — graduated driver licensing: night, passenger and solo-driving rules
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The earliest age your teen may drive without an adult in the car — the intermediate (provisional) licence age. Night-time and passenger limits still apply until the points shown below. From the IIHS graduated-licensing table row quoted on the record page.
For Arkansas (AR), intermediate minimum age is 16; nighttime restriction is 11 p.m.-4 a.m; passenger restriction is no more than 1 passenger younger than 21; night restriction lifted is age 18; passenger restriction lifted is age 18, verified against its source on 2026-09-15.
- State
- AR verified
- State name
- Arkansas our reading
- Learner minimum age
- 14 verified
- Mandatory holding period
- 6 months verified
- Supervised driving hours
- none verified
- Intermediate minimum age
- 16 verified
- Nighttime restriction
- 11 p.m.-4 a.m. verified
- Passenger restriction
- no more than 1 passenger younger than 21 verified
- Night restriction lifted
- age 18 verified
- Passenger restriction lifted
- age 18 verified
- Exceptions and footnotes
- Footnote 3: In Arkansas, 14 year-olds can drive with an instruction permit after passing a written test. After passing a road test they are eligible for a learner's license. Unsupervised driving is not permitted by holders of either the instruction permit or learner's license. The combined holding period for the permit and learner's license is six months. | Footnote 4: In Arkansas, applicants for an intermediate license must be 16 and must be crash/violation-free for six months. Licensees younger than 18 are prohibited from transporting passengers who are unrestrained. our reading
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
AR | 14 Footnote 3 | 6 months Footnote 3 | none | 16 Footnote 4 | 11 p.m.-4 a.m. | no more than 1 passenger younger than 21 | age 18 | age 18
— iihs.org, retrieved 2026-09-02
Source
- iihs.orghttps://www.iihs.org/topics/teenagers/graduated-licensing-laws-table