Traffic crashes — Connecticut Permit Test
Traffic crashes on the Connecticut permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Do not stop at an accident unless you are involved, or emergency help has not yet arrived.
Extra stopped cars block the route the ambulance needs and give the traffic behind something else to hit.
Do not stop at an accident unless you are involved or if emergency help has not yet arrived.
Never drive to the scene of an accident, a fire or another disaster just to look, because you may block the way for police, firefighters, ambulances and tow trucks.
Every sightseer is a vehicle in the way of the people whose job it is to be there.
Never drive to the scene of an accident, fire, or other disaster just to look.
If you are involved in a crash with a parked vehicle, you must try to locate the owner.
Leaving is the offense, not the dent. Making the attempt is what the law asks of you.
If you are involved in an accident with a parked vehicle, you must try and locate the owner.
If any person is injured or killed in a crash, the police must be notified.
Injury turns a private exchange into a matter for the state, and it is not the drivers' call to make.
If any person is injured or killed, the police must be notified.
It is a crime to leave a crash site where your vehicle was involved and there is an injury or death, before police have talked to you and gathered the information they need.
Leaving is charged separately from the crash itself, and it is the part that turns an accident into an offense.
It is a crime for you to leave a crash site in which your vehicle was involved if there is an injury or death before police have talked to you and gotten all the information they need about the crash.
On the test
When should a driver stop at someone else's crash?
When emergency help has not yet arrived. Extra stopped cars block the route the ambulance needs and give the traffic behind something else to hit. Connecticut Driver's Manual, p.41: “Do not stop at an accident unless you are involved or if emergency help has not yet arrived.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Connecticut Driver's Manual, published by the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-16.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/CT.pdf (Connecticut Driver's Manual, Revised March 2023, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/CT.pages.txt (plain pdftotext over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 2, folioMarker, nonLawPages and the extraction flag, each with its measured basis)