VT DMV Right-of-Way Rules 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: You are entering a roundabout in Vermont. Who has the right-of-way?
- Vehicles entering the roundabout
- Vehicles already circulating in the roundabout (Correct answer)
- The vehicle on the right
- The largest vehicle
Correct answer: Vehicles already circulating in the roundabout
Drivers entering a roundabout must yield to traffic already circulating within it.
Question 2: A school bus with flashing red lights is stopped on a two-lane road ahead of you. You must:
- Pass slowly on the left
- Stop at least until the lights stop flashing and the bus moves (Correct answer)
- Stop only if children are visible
- Slow to 10 mph and proceed
Correct answer: Stop at least until the lights stop flashing and the bus moves
Vermont law requires all traffic in both directions on an undivided road to stop for a school bus with flashing red lights.
Question 3: You reach an intersection with a yield sign and see cross traffic approaching. You should:
- Stop only if a police officer is present
- Slow down and stop if necessary to let cross traffic pass (Correct answer)
- Accelerate to merge ahead of traffic
- Honk and proceed at the same speed
Correct answer: Slow down and stop if necessary to let cross traffic pass
A yield sign requires you to slow down and give the right-of-way to cross traffic, stopping completely if needed.
Question 4: When merging onto an interstate highway from an acceleration ramp, who must yield?
- Drivers already on the highway
- The merging driver (Correct answer)
- Neither, both share equally
- Whoever is traveling slower
Correct answer: The merging driver
The merging driver must adjust speed and yield to traffic already traveling on the highway.
Question 5: You see a blind pedestrian with a white cane starting to cross the street mid-block. You must:
- Yield only if there is a crosswalk
- Sound your horn and continue
- Stop and yield the right-of-way (Correct answer)
- Wave the pedestrian back
Correct answer: Stop and yield the right-of-way
Drivers must always yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian using a white cane or guide dog, regardless of location.
Question 6: Under Vermont's Move Over law, when passing a stopped emergency vehicle with flashing lights on the shoulder, you should:
- Maintain speed but watch carefully
- Change to a non-adjacent lane if possible, or slow down (Correct answer)
- Stop behind the emergency vehicle
- Flash your headlights and continue
Correct answer: Change to a non-adjacent lane if possible, or slow down
Vermont's Move Over law requires drivers to change lanes away from stopped emergency vehicles when safe, or slow down if changing lanes is not possible.
Question 7: You are on an unpaved road approaching an intersection with a paved road, and neither has signs. Who yields?
- The driver on the paved road
- The driver on the unpaved road (Correct answer)
- The driver traveling downhill
- Neither driver
Correct answer: The driver on the unpaved road
A driver on an unpaved road must yield to traffic on an intersecting paved road when the intersection is uncontrolled.
VT DMV Right-of-Way Rules 3
You are entering a roundabout in Vermont.
Who has the right-of-way?