An Oregon collision causes a passenger's broken arm but no vehicle damage. What does Oregon require regarding Form 735-32?
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A.
Filing is unnecessary because vehicle damage stayed under $2,500.
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B.
A report is required only if the broken arm needed hospitalization.
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C.
A report is required; injury is its own filing trigger. Correct
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D.
A report is required only after police have filed their report.
The answer is "A report is required; injury is its own filing trigger."
Any injury or death from a collision is its own trigger for the 72-hour Form 735-32, independent of the dollar-damage and tow thresholds. A broken arm is plainly an injury, so the report is required even though no vehicle was damaged, and a police report does not replace the DMV filing. The pull toward A comes from locking onto the $2,500 damage figure as the whole rule and missing that injury sits in the same bullet group as its own independent trigger.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Filing is unnecessary because vehicle damage stayed under $2,500.
The injury trigger is independent of the $2,500 damage threshold. This answer treats the $2,500 damage threshold as the only filing trigger, ignoring the separate injury-or-death trigger listed in the same bullet group.
B. A report is required only if the broken arm needed hospitalization.
The manual conditions the report on injury, not on hospitalization-level severity. This answer adds a hospitalization severity test that the manual does not impose; the trigger is any injury resulting from the collision.
D. A report is required only after police have filed their report.
The manual states a police report does not replace your DMV filing obligation. This answer treats a police report as a precondition; the manual explicitly says a police report does not replace the driver's DMV report.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Traffic Collisions, Your Responsibilities," p.94..
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