You hit an unoccupied parked vehicle in an Oregon parking lot. What must you do?
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Wait at the parked vehicle until the owner returns, up to 24 hours.
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Try to find the owner; if you cannot, leave a note with your name, address, and what happened. Correct
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Drive away; Oregon has no rule about hitting unoccupied vehicles.
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D.
File a collision report with DMV within 72 hours; no note is needed.
The answer is "Try to find the owner; if you cannot, leave a note with your name, address, and what happened."
First, try to find the owner. If you cannot, leave a note with your name and address along with a brief description of what happened. The duty extends beyond vehicles: for damage to other property, notify the owner or someone in charge. Driving off without a note breaks the rule even when the vehicle is empty. What makes D tempting is a driver carrying the separate 72-hour DMV filing rule over as a substitute for the on-scene duty; the note obligation is its own step and the report does not stand in for it.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Wait at the parked vehicle until the owner returns, up to 24 hours.
The rule is reasonable effort to find the owner, then a note; there is no 24-hour wait requirement. This answer invents a 24-hour wait the manual does not require; the rule is to try to find the owner, then leave a note.
C. Drive away; Oregon has no rule about hitting unoccupied vehicles.
The manual requires you to try to find the owner and, if you cannot, leave a note at the scene. This answer treats the duty as nonexistent; the manual requires finding the owner and, failing that, leaving a note with your name, address, and a description of what happened.
D. File a collision report with DMV within 72 hours; no note is needed.
The 72-hour report rule is separate and triggered by damage thresholds; it does not replace the duty to find the owner or leave a note for an unattended vehicle. This answer misapplies the separate 72-hour collision-report rule (p.94) as a substitute for the unattended-vehicle duty to find the owner or leave a note.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Unattended Vehicles," p.94..
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