Moose and deer — Vermont Permit Test
Moose and deer 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 collision with a moose or deer can be fatal not only to the animal but to the driver and passengers of a vehicle.
A moose is tall enough to come through the windshield rather than over the hood.
A collision with a moose or deer can be fatal not only to the animal, but to the driver and passengers of a vehicle.
Moose and deer are most likely to be on Vermont highways during late evening, night time and early morning hours.
Those are the hours they move, and they are also the hours you can see least.
The presence of moose and deer on highways is most likely to occur during late evening, night time and early morning hours.
Headlights may freeze a deer in place, or it may bound at speeds up to 40 mph toward its habitat. A deer on the far side of the road may turn and bolt in front of a vehicle.
The deer is not running away from you. It is running to the other side, which may be across your hood.
it may bound at speeds up to 40 miles per hour towards their habitat
Animals travel in pairs, so be prepared to see a second one once you have seen the first.
Braking for the first deer and then accelerating is how drivers meet the second one.
Animals travel in pairs, so be prepared to see a second one once you see the first.
Moose weigh more than a thousand pounds and are much taller than deer, so in a collision one can land on top of the vehicle and its occupants. Their eyes may not reflect headlights and they are darkly colored.
Everything that makes a deer visible at night is missing on a moose, and it weighs five times as much.
Because moose are taller, their eyes may not reflect in the vehicle’s headlights. Also, moose are more darkly colored than deer.
On the test
Why does Vermont treat a collision with a moose or deer as serious?
It can be fatal to the people in the vehicle. A moose is tall enough to come through the windshield rather than over the hood. 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, p.45: “A collision with a moose or deer can be fatal not only to the animal, but to the driver and passengers of a vehicle.”
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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)