A pedestrian is attempting to cross while carrying a white cane extended in front of them. What must an approaching driver do?
Correct answer: Fully stop before the crossing place and take necessary precautions to avoid injury before proceeding.
The provision requires a full stop before the intersection or crossing place for a person crossing or attempting to cross with a raised or extended white cane, including one tipped with red, or guided by a guide dog. Necessary injury-avoidance precautions are required before proceeding.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1057, (a), Duty toward persons who are blind; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
A person with a severe visual disability is crossing without a white cane or guide dog. Does the lack of those aids remove the person's ordinary rights as a pedestrian?
Correct answer: No. The person retains the rights and privileges the law gives pedestrians.
The provision expressly preserves pedestrian rights for a person with a qualifying visual disability who is not using a cane or guide dog. Drivers must not treat the absence of an aid as removing those rights.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1057, (c), preservation of pedestrian rights without a cane or dog; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
Traffic is queued beside a designated safety zone. May you drive through that zone to get around the queue?
Correct answer: No. Vehicles must not be driven through or within a safety zone.
Section 1059 prohibits driving a vehicle through or within a safety zone. An empty-looking zone or a slow queue does not create permission to use it as a traffic lane.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1059, Driving through safety zone, complete operative sentence; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
You are leaving a driveway across a sidewalk. A pedestrian is approaching along the sidewalk. What must you do before driving across it?
Correct answer: Stop immediately before the sidewalk area and yield as necessary to avoid contact with the pedestrian.
The driveway-emergence rule requires a stop immediately before driving onto the sidewalk or its continuation across the driveway, and yielding to a pedestrian as needed to avoid contact. The separate duty toward roadway vehicles also remains when entering the road.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1074, Vehicle entering roadway, sidewalk stopping and pedestrian-yield clauses; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
A railroad signal warns of an immediately approaching train. Where must your car stop before considering whether it can cross safely?
Correct answer: At least 15 feet but no more than 50 feet from the nearest rail.
The listed railroad warning conditions require a stop within 50 feet but not nearer than 15 feet from the nearest rail. Proceeding also depends on safety; the stop alone is not permission to cross in front of an approaching train.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1071, (a) opening and (a)(1), Railroad grade crossings; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
No warning light is flashing, but a train is plainly visible and dangerously close to the crossing. What does the crossing rule require?
Correct answer: Stop and do not proceed until it is safe.
A plainly visible train or other on-track equipment in hazardous proximity to, or at, the crossing is itself a listed stopping condition. A driver must not wait for a separate light, gate or audible warning.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1071, (a) opening and (a)(4), plainly visible rail hazard; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
A train has passed, and the crossing gate has started to rise. There is already enough room under it for your car. May you drive beneath it while it is still opening?
Correct answer: No. Driving through, around or under the gate is prohibited while it is being opened.
The gate rule prohibits driving through, around or under a gate or barrier while it is closed, opening or closing. The separate mechanical-warning provision does not authorize going around or beneath a closed or moving gate.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1071, (b), gate prohibition, distinguished from (c); Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
A mechanical railroad warning signal remains operating. No crossing gate is closed or moving. Under the statute's narrow mechanical-warning provision, what is required before a driver may cross?
Correct answer: First making a full stop and reasonably ascertaining that the tracks can be crossed safely.
Section 1071(c) permits crossing while a mechanical warning operates only after a full stop and a reasonable determination that the tracks can be crossed safely. It does not waive the separate ban on passing a closed, opening or closing gate, or permit crossing into a train's path.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1071, (c), mechanical-warning exception, with (a) stopping/safety and (b) gate prohibition; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
An official stop sign has been erected at a railroad crossing under the crossing-designation rule. No train is visible. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop 15 to 50 feet from the nearest rail and proceed only when safe.
A stop sign erected at the crossing under section 1006 is a listed trigger for the section 1071 stopping requirement. The absence of a visible train does not eliminate that stop.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1071, (a) opening and (a)(5), stop sign erected pursuant to §1006; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
Traffic beyond a railroad crossing has stopped, leaving too little room for your whole car beyond the tracks. No train is currently visible. What should you do?
Correct answer: Wait before the crossing until you can drive completely through without stopping on it.
The exit-space requirement expressly applies to commercial and noncommercial vehicles. A car driver must allow enough space to travel completely through the crossing without stopping; the absence of a visible train does not remove that requirement.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1076, (b) opening and (b)(1), noncommercial as well as commercial exit-space duty; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
The shape of a railroad crossing would leave your car without enough undercarriage clearance to pass over the tracks. What should you do?
Correct answer: Do not attempt the crossing with insufficient undercarriage clearance.
The statute expressly applies the undercarriage-clearance rule to noncommercial vehicles as well as commercial ones. A driver must not attempt to cross if the vehicle lacks sufficient clearance.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1076, (b) opening and (b)(3), undercarriage clearance; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
On an undivided road, outside any controlled-access-highway loading zone, a properly marked and equipped school bus has stopped to receive schoolchildren and its red signal lights are flashing. What must you do when meeting or overtaking it?
Correct answer: Stop immediately and remain stationary while the flashing red lights operate.
The school-bus provision requires an immediate stop and keeping the vehicle stationary while the red signal lights operate. The undivided road excludes the different-roadway exception, and the stem separately excludes a controlled-access-highway loading zone.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1075, (a), Passing school bus, with (b) exceptions excluded by scenario; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
A school bus is stopped on the other roadway of a divided highway, across a median from your roadway. Does the bus-stopping provision require you to stop for a bus on that different roadway?
Correct answer: No. The provision has an exception for a bus on a different roadway of a highway with separate roadways.
The exception concerns a highway with separate roadways and a school bus on a different roadway. It is not a general exemption for all multilane roads and is distinct from the controlled-access loading-zone exception.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1075, (b), highway with separate roadways and bus on a different roadway; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
You choose a highway location where parking is otherwise permitted. In addition to leaving an unobstructed width for passing traffic, how far away must the stopped vehicle be clearly visible in each direction?
Correct answer: 200 feet.
Where parking is permitted, the statute requires free passage for other vehicles and a clear view of stopped vehicles from 200 feet in each direction. It does not make hazard lights a substitute for that visibility.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1101, (b), Stopping, standing, or parking; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
A breakdown disables your car on the paved, main-traveled part of a highway so that avoiding a stop and temporarily leaving it there is impossible or impractical. Which statement applies to temporarily leaving the disabled car in that position?
Correct answer: The stopping provision has a specific exception for a vehicle disabled to this extent.
Section 1101(c) excepts a vehicle disabled to the stated extent. This is a specific temporary breakdown exception, not general permission to leave an operable vehicle on the traveled portion for convenience.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1101, (a)–(c), disabled-vehicle exception in (c); Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
With no traffic necessity, legal requirement or official direction, you want to stop beside a car already parked at the curb to let a passenger out. Is it allowed just because the stop will be brief?
Correct answer: No. Stopping on the roadway side of the parked car is prohibited.
Double parking is in the no-stopping, standing or parking category. The separate momentary passenger exception to standing/parking restrictions does not create an exception here. The scenario excludes the general traffic-conflict and official-direction exceptions.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1104, (a) opening and (a)(1)(A), distinguished from (a)(2); Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
An otherwise safe curb location has only an official No Standing restriction. Which activity fits the provision's momentary passenger exception?
Correct answer: Momentarily stopping to pick up a passenger who is ready at the curb.
The standing/parking category permits momentary passenger pick-up or discharge. It does not provide the same exception for waiting, route planning or merchandise delivery. Other applicable restrictions still matter.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1104, (a)(2) opening and (a)(2)(F), momentary passenger exception; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
A curb location is marked only No Parking and is not otherwise restricted. Which activity fits the provision's temporary loading exception?
Correct answer: Temporarily stopping while actually unloading merchandise.
The no-parking category excepts temporary stops for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, loading or unloading merchandise or a passenger. An intention to load later is not enough. A No Standing or No Stopping restriction is different.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1104, (a)(3) opening and (a)(3)(B), actual loading/unloading exception; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
You intend to wait several minutes five feet from a fire hydrant. You will remain in the car but are not momentarily loading a passenger. No traffic necessity or official direction applies. Is this permitted?
Correct answer: No. Standing or parking within six feet of a hydrant is prohibited in this situation.
The published Vermont provision uses six feet, not the different distance used by some other states. It covers standing or parking whether occupied or not, with the stated momentary passenger exception. The scenario excludes that exception and the general traffic/official-direction exceptions.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1104, (a) opening, (a)(2) opening and (a)(2)(B), six-foot hydrant restriction; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
You plan to leave your car while shopping, 15 feet from a crosswalk at an intersection. No exception or official direction applies. Does that meet the stated clearance?
Correct answer: No. Standing or parking is prohibited within 20 feet of that crosswalk.
The standing/parking restriction extends 20 feet from a crosswalk at an intersection. Leaving the car to shop is not the momentary passenger exception; being clear of the painted lines alone is not sufficient.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1104, (a) opening, (a)(2) opening and (a)(2)(C); Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
