Pedestrian right of way — Nevada Permit Test
Pedestrian right of way on the Nevada permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Drivers must yield to pedestrians crossing at an intersection and to those trying to cross the road.
A person on foot has no protection at all, and a car at even low speed can kill them.
Pedestrians have the right-of-way when crossing at an intersection.
When a signal turns green, drivers must still yield to people who are still crossing the street.
A person caught mid-street when the light changes is right in front of the cars that start to move.
When a traffic signal turns green, drivers must yield to persons who are still crossing the street.
You must yield, slow down or stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk who is on your half of the road, or who is coming so close from the other half as to be in danger.
A walker crossing from the far side reaches your lane in seconds, and you cannot stop if you wait too long.
The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slow down or stop for a pedestrian crossing the highway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the highway upon which the vehicle is traveling or onto which the vehicle is turning, or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the highway as to be in danger.
A vehicle yielding to a pedestrian should wait until the pedestrian has crossed into the lanes going the other direction before going on.
Moving off the moment someone passes your bumper can clip them if they stop, turn back or drop something.
Vehicles yielding to a pedestrian should wait until the pedestrian has crossed into the lanes going in the other direction before proceeding.
On the test
A pedestrian is crossing at an intersection. Who has the right-of-way?
The pedestrian who is crossing. A person on foot has no protection at all, and a car at even low speed can kill them. Nevada Driver Handbook, p.66: “Pedestrians have the right-of-way when crossing at an intersection.”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Nevada Driver Handbook, published by the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NV.pdf (Nevada Driver Handbook, DMV 700, March 2024, Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NV.pages.txt (plain pdftotext, the fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NV-exam.html (Nevada DMV, Written Knowledge Test page, https://dmv.nv.gov/wtestteens.htm, read 2026-10-04; states both exam figures; sha256 pinned under examSource)
- https://dmv.nv.gov/dlhandbook.htm (read 2026-10-04; links the handbook)