Crash reports — Vermont Permit Test
Crash reports on the Vermont permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
A police officer responding to a 911 call views the scene and gets the facts of what happened. The police will not take sides for one driver or the other.
The report is a record rather than a verdict, which is why what you say at the scene is the facts and nothing else.
The police will not take sides for one driver or the other.
Note exactly where the crash happened. In a city that means the names of the streets at the intersection, or the number of the nearest house.
A crash report that cannot say where it happened cannot be used to fix the place it happened.
In a city, note the names of the streets if the crash was at an intersection, or the number of the nearest house to the crash.
Outside a city, note the nearest town, the route number or road name, and how far it is to the nearest crossroad. Mile markers can pinpoint the exact location.
A rural road has no house numbers, so the mile marker is the only address the road has.
Mile markers can be used to pinpoint the exact location of a crash scene.
Get the name, address, license and registration numbers of the other driver, and the names and addresses of the people in the other vehicle and of anyone who saw the crash.
Witnesses leave within minutes, and afterwards there is no way to find them.
It is also good to get the names and addresses of the persons in the other motor vehicle and all persons who saw the crash.
If a Vermont driver has a crash in another state, it must be reported in the state where the crash happened.
The report belongs to the road it happened on, not to the state that issued the license.
If a Vermont driver has a crash in another state, it must be reported in the state where the crash happened.
On the test
What does a police officer at a crash scene do?
Get the facts, without taking either driver's side. The report is a record rather than a verdict, which is why what you say at the scene is the facts and nothing else. 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, p.58: “The police will not take sides for one driver or the other.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, published by the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-15.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/VT.pdf (2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, form VN-007, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/VT.pages.txt (pdftotext -layout over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 1, folioMarker, nonLawPages, signGalleryPages and the extraction flag, each with its basis)