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Road-rule mix: Emergency and work vehicles

Road rules and local driver responsibilities. Separate sets below cover learner and junior licenses, phones, restraints, crashes, impairment and insurance, alongside common car skills and pictured signs. Motorcycle practice and CDL technical practice keep their own questions and progress. Read the full handbook and application instructions too.

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  1. 1. A law enforcement vehicle approaches displaying its blue signal lamp, but you do not hear a siren. What should you do?
  2. 2. On a multilane highway, you approach a stationary tow truck displaying an amber signal lamp on the shoulder next to your lane. Traffic prevents a safe move into the farther lane. What should you do?
  3. 3. In a properly designated work zone, workers are present only beside the right side of a multilane highway. A safe lane change to the farther lane is available and no control directs otherwise. Which response fits the rule?
  4. 4. A vehicle authorized by the road authority is obviously and actually performing maintenance on the highway and displays the required flashing lights. What priority must you give it?
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  1. A law enforcement vehicle approaches displaying its blue signal lamp, but you do not hear a siren. What should you do?

    Correct answer: Pull to the right of the traffic lane and come to a complete stop until it has passed.

    The police-vehicle trigger is a siren or the specified blue or blue-and-white lamp, or both. The required response is to pull right and stop until the vehicle passes; it is not conditional on hearing a siren too.

    Source: 23 V.S.A. § 1050(a): approaching police vehicle with siren or blue/blue-and-white lamp; right and full stop. Vermont Statutes Online: compilation includes actions of the 2025 session; unofficial VSA copy. Read October 1, 2026; no full 2026 session-law reconciliation. ↗

  2. On a multilane highway, you approach a stationary tow truck displaying an amber signal lamp on the shoulder next to your lane. Traffic prevents a safe move into the farther lane. What should you do?

    Correct answer: Remain in your lane, proceed cautiously and slow to a reasonable, safe and prudent speed for the circumstances.

    A farther-lane move is required on a multilane highway when safety conditions permit. If you must remain adjacent, the statute instead requires slowing to a reasonable, safe and prudent speed, considering conditions and the posted limit.

    Source: 23 V.S.A. § 1050(b): stationary tow/repair amber lamp; safe multilane move-over and adjacent-lane speed duty. Vermont Statutes Online: compilation includes actions of the 2025 session; unofficial VSA copy. Read October 1, 2026; no full 2026 session-law reconciliation. ↗

  3. In a properly designated work zone, workers are present only beside the right side of a multilane highway. A safe lane change to the farther lane is available and no control directs otherwise. Which response fits the rule?

    Correct answer: Use the farther lane, proceed cautiously and slow to a reasonable, safe and prudent speed.

    The work-zone provision requires caution and appropriate slowing. When workers are on only one side of a multilane highway and conditions allow, remain in or move to a lane farther from them.

    Source: 23 V.S.A. § 1050(c): properly designated work zone; workers one side, safer farther lane when permitted by conditions. Vermont Statutes Online: compilation includes actions of the 2025 session; unofficial VSA copy. Read October 1, 2026; no full 2026 session-law reconciliation. ↗

  4. A vehicle authorized by the road authority is obviously and actually performing maintenance on the highway and displays the required flashing lights. What priority must you give it?

    Correct answer: Yield the right of way to the working maintenance vehicle.

    The provision requires yielding to an authorized maintenance vehicle that is obviously and actually engaged in highway work with the required flashing lights. It is not a blanket priority rule for every vehicle carrying a flashing lamp.

    Source: 23 V.S.A. § 1050a(a)–(b): authorized highway-maintenance vehicle actually working with required flashing lights. Vermont Statutes Online: compilation includes actions of the 2025 session; unofficial VSA copy. Read October 1, 2026; no full 2026 session-law reconciliation. ↗

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