You are passing a pedestrian who is walking on the shoulder of the roadway. What is the minimum distance you must keep between your vehicle and the pedestrian?
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A.
6 feet
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B.
3 feet Correct
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C.
2 feet
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D.
5 feet
The answer is "3 feet"
Illinois sets a 3-foot minimum between your vehicle and a pedestrian walking on the road or shoulder. Drivers who reach for 6 feet are pulling in the spacing from public-health guidance they saw on signs and applying it to a driving rule that never used that number.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. 6 feet
This answer overstates the buffer; the manual does not use 6 feet for passing a pedestrian. It borrows the six-foot spacing from public-health signs and treats it as a driving figure.
C. 2 feet
This answer falls short of the 3-foot minimum the manual sets when passing a pedestrian on the road or shoulder. It recalls the pedestrian buffer as an arm's length, which is how some drivers first learned to gauge it.
D. 5 feet
This answer overstates the minimum; the manual gives the buffer as 3 feet. It splits the difference between the 3-foot rule and a wider gap drivers apply on instinct in traffic.
This question tests your knowledge of Passing in Illinois. Source: Illinois Rules of the Road, "Passing," p.28..
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