You are involved in a crash. The manual lists stopping the vehicle immediately as the first step. What is the next step on that list?
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A.
Take precautions to prevent further crashes at the scene. Correct
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B.
Move all vehicles off the shoulder before officers arrive.
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C.
Collect written statements from any witnesses.
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D.
Photograph each vehicle's position before moving it.
The answer is "Take precautions to prevent further crashes at the scene."
After stopping, the manual's next instruction is to take precautions to prevent further crashes at the scene. Photos can help document a crash, but taking them must not delay precautions to prevent another collision, which is why option D traps drivers who reach for an insurance-claim checklist before the manual's own list.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Move all vehicles off the shoulder before officers arrive.
The manual says the opposite within narrow limits: on a main lane, ramp, shoulder, median or adjacent highway area with no injuries or fatalities, each vehicle should be moved out of the travel lane onto the shoulder, and only if it can be driven under its own power without causing further damage. This answer treats the shoulder as a place to leave, a habit carried over from freeway-clearance advice telling drivers to get fully off the roadside before help arrives.
C. Collect written statements from any witnesses.
Witness statements are not on the manual's list; the information you are required to collect is the other drivers' identification and insurance details. This answer borrows the witness-interview reflex from TV crime scenes and swaps it in for the driver-exchange step the manual actually lists.
D. Photograph each vehicle's position before moving it.
Photos can help document a crash, but taking them must not delay precautions to prevent another collision, which is what the manual's list calls for next. This answer pulls the photo-the-scene step straight from an insurance-claim checklist rather than from the manual's prevent-further-crashes directive.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Chapter 4, Crashes, In the event you are involved in a crash," p.78..
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