No passing situations — Utah Permit Test

A driver may never pass when a curve or a hill blocks their view.

The road you cannot see is the road an oncoming car is already using. There is no way to make that pass safe.

If a curve or hill blocks your view.

A driver may never pass at an intersection, or pass another car stopped at a crosswalk.

A car stopped at a crosswalk is stopped for somebody you cannot see. Going around it is driving at them blind.

At intersections, or another car when stopped at a crosswalk.

A driver may never pass before a railroad crossing or a bridge.

Neither one gives you anywhere to go if the pass goes wrong, and a bridge has no shoulder at all.

Before a railroad crossing or bridge.

A driver may not pass a snowplow displaying flashing yellow lights on the side where a plow blade is deployed.

The blade throws snow and rock sideways and sits wider than the truck. Nobody can see you coming up beside it.

If a snowplow displays flashing yellow lights, an individual operating a vehicle near the snowplow may not pass or overtake a snowplow on the side of the snowplow where a plow blade is deployed.

Where three or more snowplows operate in echelon formation, a driver may not pass them on either side.

Plows in echelon clear the whole road at once. There is no gap between them to pass through, only snow.

If three or more snowplows operate in echelon formation, an individual operating a vehicle may not pass or overtake the snowplows on either side.

A driver may never pass in a no-passing zone or when there is an oncoming vehicle.

The zone is marked because somebody measured the sight line. An oncoming car settles it without any paint.

In a no-passing zone.

When may a Utah driver not pass because of the road shape?

When a curve or hill blocks the view. The road you cannot see is the road an oncoming car is already using. There is no way to make that pass safe. Utah Driver Handbook 2026-2027, p.34: “If a curve or hill blocks your view.”