A crash ahead of you is unavoidable. Which choice does the Florida manual list as the better option?
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A.
Hitting a vehicle head-on rather than one traveling your direction.
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B.
Hitting a solid tree rather than a hedge along the shoulder.
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C.
Swerving off the road rather than into oncoming traffic. Correct
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D.
Braking hard in your lane rather than steering around the hazard.
The answer is "Swerving off the road rather than into oncoming traffic."
The manual lists swerving off the road as preferable to swerving into oncoming traffic. Readers who scan the bullet list quickly reverse the soft-versus-solid item further down, where a soft object like a hedge is preferred to a solid object like a tree, and land on B.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Hitting a vehicle head-on rather than one traveling your direction.
The manual states the opposite; a same-direction collision is preferable to head-on. This answer reverses the direction rule from the same bullet list.
B. Hitting a solid tree rather than a hedge along the shoulder.
The manual prefers a soft object like a hedge to a solid object like a tree. This answer inverts the soft-versus-solid item printed further down the same list.
D. Braking hard in your lane rather than steering around the hazard.
The manual's list weighs steering choices; it does not treat braking-in-lane as preferable. This answer falls back on the driving habit of hard-braking in place rather than reading the manual's choice list.
This question tests your knowledge of Defensive Driving in Florida. Source: Florida Driver Manual, "Handling Emergencies: Defensive Driving," p.75..
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