You are the OWNER of a vehicle involved in a reportable Oregon collision, but a friend was driving and they have not filed a report. What is YOUR obligation?
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A.
You must file the report yourself if the driver fails to report. Correct
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B.
Only if damage to the vehicle exceeded $2,500 and it was towed from the scene.
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C.
No obligation: only the driver must file.
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D.
You must call the police, but you have no DMV obligation.
The answer is "You must file the report yourself if the driver fails to report."
If you are the owner of a vehicle in a reportable Oregon collision and the driver fails to report it, you must file. The 72-hour clock applies to you. The duty cascades to the owner precisely so it does not vanish when someone else was behind the wheel, and a police report does not stand in for the DMV filing. Option C treats the driver's filing duty as the whole rule and overlooks the owner-cascade line that picks up exactly this situation.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Only if damage to the vehicle exceeded $2,500 and it was towed from the scene.
The damage-plus-towing threshold is a separate filing trigger, not a precondition for the owner-cascade duty. This answer confuses two distinct filing triggers, treating the damage/towing threshold as a gate on the owner's duty when the driver fails to report.
C. No obligation: only the driver must file.
The owner-must-file rule kicks in when the driver fails to report. This answer treats the driver's duty to file as the only duty, ignoring the explicit owner trigger when the driver fails to report.
D. You must call the police, but you have no DMV obligation.
The DMV reporting obligation cascades to the owner; calling police is not a substitute. This answer confuses notifying police with the DMV report; the manual states a police report does not replace the DMV filing requirement.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Traffic Collisions, Your Responsibilities," p.94..
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