You hit a deer on a rural road and the injured animal is near the roadside. What does the manual say to do first?
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A.
Get out and stand behind your car to warn approaching traffic
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B.
Move the animal off the road so it does not cause another crash
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C.
Pull off safely, stay in your car, lock the doors, turn on hazard lights Correct
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D.
Approach the animal on foot to see whether it is still alive
The answer is "Pull off safely, stay in your car, lock the doors, turn on hazard lights"
The manual says to pull off safely, stay in your car with the doors locked, and turn on the hazard lights. Choice A borrows the breakdown habit of getting out to stand behind the car, which the manual forbids even during a breakdown or tire change.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Get out and stand behind your car to warn approaching traffic
Getting out breaks the manual's stay-in-your-car rule for animal strikes, and standing behind the vehicle is forbidden even in a breakdown or tire change. Carries over the breakdown habit of leaving the car, forgetting that the animal-strike rule keeps you inside with the doors locked.
B. Move the animal off the road so it does not cause another crash
The manual says do not approach the animal because it may be dangerous, so dragging it clear is the opposite of the rule. Treats the Good Samaritan impulse to clear the roadway as outranking the manual's explicit do-not-approach warning.
D. Approach the animal on foot to see whether it is still alive
The manual says do not approach the animal, and checking whether it is alive is a job it hands to wildlife rehabilitators. Applies a duty-of-care instinct to check on the animal that the manual assigns to wildlife rehabilitators instead.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Chapter 4, Wildlife, If you hit an animal or come across an injured one," p.75..
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