You cannot avoid being hit by another vehicle. According to the manual, what should you do if all else fails?
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A.
Use your arms and hands to shield your face from breaking glass. Correct
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B.
Brace yourself between the steering wheel and the seat.
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C.
Press the back of your head firmly against the head rest.
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D.
Let go of the steering wheel so your wrists cannot be injured on impact.
The answer is "Use your arms and hands to shield your face from breaking glass."
The manual's about-to-be-hit bullets tell you to keep a tight grip on the wheel, prepare to turn fast, and if all else fails, use your arms and hands to shield your face from breaking glass. The brace-between-wheel-and-seat answer is the trap because it's from the separate list two paragraphs up for being hit from the rear with room ahead; the two about-to-be-hit lists sit on the same page and readers blend them.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Brace yourself between the steering wheel and the seat.
Bracing between the wheel and the seat is from the separate rear-end list two paragraphs earlier. Pulls a step from the hit-from-the-rear list sitting right above the general list.
C. Press the back of your head firmly against the head rest.
That is also from the rear-end bullets, where head restraint matters most. Grabs a line from the adjacent rear-end checklist on the same page.
D. Let go of the steering wheel so your wrists cannot be injured on impact.
The manual's same bullet list tells you to keep a tight grip on the wheel, which is the opposite of this. Trusts a persistent folk belief that contradicts the manual's grip instruction two lines up.
This question tests your knowledge of Emergencies in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Crashes," p.78..
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