Crashes general — Delaware Permit Test
Crashes general on the Delaware permit test — 3 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Delaware's manual says not to stop at a crash unless you are involved or emergency help has not yet arrived; otherwise keep moving and watch for people near the road.
Cars stopping to help where help is already working pile up and cause a second crash.
Do not stop at a crash unless you are involved or if emergency help has not yet arrived.
Delaware's manual says never to drive to the scene of a crash, fire, or other disaster just to look, because you may block police, firefighters, ambulances, and rescue vehicles.
An ambulance stuck behind a line of onlookers reaches the injured minutes late.
Never drive to the scene of a crash, fire, or other disaster just to look.
In Delaware, it is a crime to leave a crash site where your vehicle was involved and someone was injured or killed before police have talked to you and gotten all the information they need.
A driver who leaves an injury crash early leaves police without the facts and the injured without answers.
It is a crime for you to leave a crash site where 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
If you are not involved, when should you stop at a crash you are passing?
If emergency help has not yet arrived. Cars stopping to help where help is already working pile up and cause a second crash. Delaware Driver Manual, p.140: “Do not stop at a crash 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 Delaware Driver Manual, published by the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-05.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/DE.pdf (Delaware Driver Manual, July 2026, Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles, retrieved 2026-09-14; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/DE.pages.txt (scripts/de-text.sh: plain pdftotext cropped to keep the section tab out, physical 47 under -layout; the fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/DE-exam.html (Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles, Driver's License Exam, https://dmv.de.gov/DriverServices/drivers_license/index.shtml?dc=dr_lic_written, read 2026-10-05; states both exam figures; sha256 pinned under examSource)
- https://dmv.de.gov/menu/forms_manuals.shtml (read 2026-10-05; links the manual)
- https://dmv.de.gov/DriverServices/faqs/index.shtml?dc=dr_faq_general (read 2026-10-05; its 30 and 24 are the exam page's figures before 2024-12, per the Internet Archive)