Under New York's point system, how many points are added to your record for leaving the scene of a personal injury accident?
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A.
5 points Correct
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B.
11 points
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C.
2 points
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D.
3 points
The answer is "5 points"
The point-system chart shows leaving the scene of a personal injury accident at five points. Choice D tempts readers who read down the chart and grab the property-damage row printed just below the injury row, treating the two forms of leaving-the-scene as interchangeable when the chart splits them.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. 11 points
Eleven points is the chart's top tier, used for over-40-mph speeding, aggravated unlicensed operation, and DWI, DWAI, DWAI-drugs, or chemical-test refusals. Leaving the scene of a personal injury accident sits separately at five points. This answer assumes leaving an injury scene must draw the manual's harshest penalty and reaches for the top row of the chart.
C. 2 points
No leaving-the-scene entry on the chart carries a two-point value. This answer reaches for the two-point floor the chart applies to most other moving violations, failure to signal, and improper turns.
D. 3 points
Three points is the figure listed for leaving the scene of a property-damage incident, not for an injury crash. This answer confuses the injury row with the property-damage row printed just below it on the same chart.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in New York. Source: New York State Driver's Manual, "The Point System," p.22..
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