Accident duties — Montana Permit Test
Accident duties on the Montana 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 a crash unless you are involved or emergency help has not arrived yet; keep driving and watch for people in or near the road.
Cars stopping to stare at a crash cause the next crash behind them.
Do not stop at an accident unless you are involved, or emergency help has not arrived yet.
Never drive to the scene of a crash, fire, or other disaster just to look; you may block police, firefighters, ambulances, and tow trucks.
An ambulance stuck behind a line of onlookers reaches the hurt person late.
Never drive to the scene of an accident, fire, or other disaster just to look.
If you are in a crash with a parked vehicle, you must try to locate the owner.
An owner who comes back to a dented car with no word has no one to send the repair bill to.
If you are involved in an accident with a parked vehicle, you must try to locate the owner.
In Montana it is a crime to leave a crash your vehicle was in, if anyone is injured or killed, before police have talked to you and gotten what they need.
A driver who leaves an injury crash leaves police with no way to learn what happened.
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.
Carry a basic emergency kit with flares and first aid supplies in your vehicle.
Without flares, nothing warns the next car that a wreck is around the bend.
You should carry a basic emergency kit that has flares and first aid supplies in your vehicle.
On the test
You drive past a crash. When should you stop?
If you are involved or help has not yet come. Cars stopping to stare at a crash cause the next crash behind them. Montana Driver Manual, p.79: “Do not stop at an accident unless you are involved, or emergency help has not arrived yet.”
How this works
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Montana Driver Manual, published by the Montana Department of Justice, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MT.pdf (Montana Driver Manual, Revised April 2024, Montana Department of Justice, Motor Vehicle Division, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MT.pages.txt (scripts/mt-text.sh: pdftotext -layout except printed pp.24-26, which are plain; the fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MT-exam.html (Administrative Rules of Montana 23.3.121, Road Signs and Road Rules, as reproduced by the Legal Information Institute, read 2026-10-04; states the seven-miss pass mark; sha256 pinned under examSource)
- https://mvdmt.gov/forms-driver-license/ (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)