Arkansas (AR) — graduated driver licensing: night, passenger and solo-driving rules
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 2026-10-07.
- State
- AR verified
- State name
- Arkansas our reading
- Learner minimum age
- 14
- Mandatory holding period (IIHS table)
- 6 months verified
- Supervised driving hours
- none verified
- Intermediate minimum age
- 16
- 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
State, Learner minimum age, Mandatory holding period (IIHS table), Supervised driving hours, Intermediate minimum age, Nighttime restriction, Passenger restriction, Night restriction lifted and Passenger restriction lifted
The source prints these values inside the passage below but does not name them there. The passage shows where each one appears; what ties them to this record is the position on the page, not anything the passage says.
AR | 14Footnote 3 | 6 monthsFootnote 3 | none | 16Footnote 4 | 11 p.m.-4 a.m. | no more than 1 passenger younger than 21 | age 18 | age 18
— iihs.org, retrieved 2026-10-07
Source
- iihs.orghttps://www.iihs.org/topics/teenagers/graduated-licensing-laws-table