First aid — Colorado Permit Test

First aid on the Colorado permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.

The rules

Good Samaritan laws were developed to encourage people to help others in emergency situations, and require that the Good Samaritan use common sense and a reasonable level of skill, not exceeding the scope of their training.

People hold back from helping because they are afraid of being sued. The law removes that fear as long as you stay within what you know.

Good Samaritan laws were developed to encourage people to help others in emergency situations

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.27

When you respond to an emergency and act as a reasonable and prudent person would under the same conditions, Good Samaritan immunity generally protects you from being sued and found financially responsible for the victim injury.

The protection is not automatic. It follows from behaving the way a careful person would in the same place.

This legal immunity protects you, as a rescuer, from being sued and found financially responsible for the victims’ injury

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.27

A reasonable and prudent person would move a victim only if the victim’s life is in danger.

Moving somebody with a spinal injury can do damage nothing can undo. The exception is where staying put would kill them.

Move a victim only if the victim’s life is in danger

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.27

A reasonable and prudent person would ask a conscious victim for permission before giving care, and check the victim for life threatening emergencies before providing further care.

A conscious person gets to decide what is done to them. Checking for the worst injuries first is what decides where to start.

Ask a conscious victim for permission before giving care

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.27

Summon professional help to the scene by calling the local emergency number or the operator, and continue to provide care until more highly trained personnel arrive.

Whatever you can do is a holding measure. The call is the part that brings the people who can actually treat the injury.

Summon professional help to the scene by calling the local emergency number or the operator and continue to provide care until more highly trained personnel arrive

Colorado Driver Handbook, p.27

On the test

What do Good Samaritan laws require of someone who helps?

Common sense and skill within their training. People hold back from helping because they are afraid of being sued. The law removes that fear as long as you stay within what you know. Colorado Driver Handbook, p.27: “Good Samaritan laws were developed to encourage people to help others in emergency situations”

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Where these come from

Every rule here is checked against Colorado Driver Handbook, published by the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-16.