Sharing with pedestrians — Vermont Permit Test
Sharing with pedestrians on the Vermont permit test — 7 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Drivers must watch carefully for pedestrians, and be especially alert for young, elderly, disabled or intoxicated ones, who are the most frequent victims in collisions with vehicles.
These are the people least able to judge a gap or get out of the way once they have misjudged it.
Be especially alert for young, elderly, disabled or intoxicated pedestrians.
When a vehicle ahead of you stops for a pedestrian, do not pass it, even where there are two lanes. This is a frequent cause of death for pedestrians.
The stopped car hides the person crossing, and the driver going past has no idea they are there until it is over.
When a vehicle ahead of you stops for a pedestrian, do not pass the stopped vehicle even if there are two lanes provided.
Even when a pedestrian crosses the street carelessly, the driver must yield.
Being in the right is no comfort afterwards, and the car is the only thing in the collision with brakes.
Even when pedestrians cross the street carelessly, the driver must yield.
Do not block a crosswalk when stopped or waiting to turn. Blocking it with any part of your vehicle forces pedestrians around you and into danger.
Somebody who has to walk around your hood ends up in the traffic lane, which is the one place the crosswalk existed to keep them out of.
Blocking a crosswalk with all or part of your vehicle forces pedestrians to go around you and puts them in a potentially dangerous situation.
Use extra caution when approaching a blind pedestrian. Where a pedestrian with a white cane, or led by a guide dog, is crossing or waiting to cross ahead of you, you must stop and yield the right-of-way.
They cannot see you slow down, so nothing short of a stopped car tells them the road is theirs.
When a pedestrian who has a white cane or is being led by a guide dog is crossing or waiting to cross the street ahead of you, you must stop and yield the right-of-way.
Do not turn right on red where a lit No Turn On Red sign is displayed, and never turn right on a red arrow.
Those signs light up while people are crossing, which is the moment a right turn sweeps through the crosswalk.
Do not turn right on red when the signs are lit. Remember: DO NOT turn right on a red arrow.
Do not stop to pick up hitchhikers on the Interstate or its ramps.
Stopping on an Interstate lane or ramp puts a stationary car where every other driver expects 65 mph.
Do not stop to pick up hitchhikers on the Interstate or the ramps.
On the test
Which pedestrians should a Vermont driver be especially alert for?
Young, elderly, disabled or intoxicated pedestrians. These are the people least able to judge a gap or get out of the way once they have misjudged it. 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, p.37: “Be especially alert for young, elderly, disabled or intoxicated pedestrians.”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.
Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.
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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)