You damage an unattended vehicle and cannot locate the owner. What does the manual say to do?
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A.
Wait no more than fifteen minutes at the scene, then leave
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B.
Write down what you can gather and give it to the nearest law enforcement officer Correct
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C.
Report the damage only to your own insurance company
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D.
Leave a note with your phone number on the windshield and drive away
The answer is "Write down what you can gather and give it to the nearest law enforcement officer"
The handbook routes an unattended-property crash through law enforcement: write down everything you can gather and give it to the nearest officer. State law also lets you attach a written note to the vehicle instead, so the note is not the error in choice D. Driving away is. Either route leaves the owner owed notice within 48 hours.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Wait no more than fifteen minutes at the scene, then leave
Sets a fifteen-minute limit that the manual never sets. This answer invents a wait-time rule to justify leaving when the manual instead points to a law enforcement officer.
C. Report the damage only to your own insurance company
Skips the officer notification the manual requires and treats the matter as insurance-only. This answer reads the crash duty as a private insurance matter rather than a public reporting one.
D. Leave a note with your phone number on the windshield and drive away
The note is allowed; driving away is what fails. A note stands in for finding the owner only when the owner still gets notice within 48 hours, and this answer carries over the parking-lot dent habit of leaving a number and treating the matter as closed.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Crashes," p.78..
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