Stalled on railroad tracks
A free practice question for the Virginia permit test, with the answer explained.
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Your car stalls on the tracks and a train is coming. Which way should you run?
The rule
If your car stalls on railroad tracks, don't hesitate: get out at once and run diagonally away from the tracks, toward the direction the train is coming from.
Get out at once and run diagonally away from the tracks, toward the direction the train is coming from.
From the Virginia Driver's Manual, section 2, page 10. This question is our own wording of that rule. The handbook and the DMV have the final word.
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