Scanning intersections — Montana Permit Test
Scanning intersections on the Montana permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Intersections are any place where traffic merges or crosses, including driveways and shopping center or parking lot entrances.
A driver who watches only at street corners is caught off guard by a car pulling out of a store lot.
Intersections are any place where traffic merges or crosses.
If you are stopped at an intersection, look both left and right just before you start moving.
A car can appear from the side in the seconds you sat waiting, so the look you took earlier is stale.
If stopped, look both left and right just before you start moving.
Before turning left across oncoming traffic, look one more time toward oncoming traffic just before you turn.
A car that was far off when you first looked may now be close enough to hit you as you cross its lane.
Look one more time in the direction of oncoming traffic before you turn.
Before turning right, check for pedestrians crossing where you will turn, and for oncoming traffic turning left into your path.
A person stepping off the corner is right where your car goes when you swing around a right turn.
Do not begin your turn without checking for pedestrians crossing where you will be turning.
On the test
Which of these does the Montana manual count as an intersection?
A parking lot entrance. A driver who watches only at street corners is caught off guard by a car pulling out of a store lot. Montana Driver Manual, p.53: “Intersections are any place where traffic merges or crosses.”
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)