If a person is killed or unconscious in an Oregon collision, what does the handbook tell you to do?
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Remain at the scene until police arrive. Correct
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B.
Drive to the nearest hospital to report it in person.
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C.
Move the vehicles to clear the road, then leave.
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D.
Try to revive the person yourself before calling 911.
The answer is "Remain at the scene until police arrive."
Oregon's handbook is explicit: when a person is killed or unconscious, remain at the scene until police arrive. The exchange-of-information procedure assumes both drivers can communicate, and once someone is killed or unconscious that is no longer possible, so law enforcement must take over the scene. C attracts drivers who carry over the separate no-injury guidance about moving vehicles out of travel lanes and apply it to a scene where someone is killed or unconscious; two adjacent rules for very different situations.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Drive to the nearest hospital to report it in person.
You stay at the scene; you do not leave to drive to a hospital. This answer misreads the duty to assist as a duty to transport or report in person, ignoring the explicit instruction to remain at the scene until police arrive.
C. Move the vehicles to clear the road, then leave.
The 'move vehicles out of travel lanes' rule applies only when there are no injuries; when someone is unconscious or killed, you must remain at the scene. This answer conflates the no-injury rule ('If there are no injuries and vehicles can be safely moved, move them out of travel lanes') with the killed-or-unconscious rule that requires remaining at the scene.
D. Try to revive the person yourself before calling 911.
The handbook directs reasonable assistance, but injured people should never be moved carelessly. The bigger rule is: stay at the scene. This answer misreads 'Give reasonable assistance to injured persons' as a directive to attempt revival, ignoring the explicit warning that injured people should never be moved carelessly.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Other Important Information, Traffic Collisions, Your Responsibilities," p.94..
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