Your child in the back seat needs your attention while you are driving in Oregon. What does the handbook recommend?
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A.
Pull over to the side of the road and park, then attend to the child. Correct
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B.
Glance back briefly while continuing to drive.
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C.
Have a passenger reach back while you keep driving.
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D.
Slow down and reach back with one hand.
The answer is "Pull over to the side of the road and park, then attend to the child."
Do not take your eyes off the road to turn around to deal with the needs of passengers, children, or pets. If you must give attention to passengers or animals, pull over to the side of the road and park your vehicle. The handbook treats passenger, child, and pet attention as a form of distracted driving and prescribes stopping the vehicle, not splitting attention while moving.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Glance back briefly while continuing to drive.
The handbook directs you not to take your eyes off the road to deal with the needs of passengers, children, or pets; pull over and park instead. Misreading: Treats a brief glance away from the road as acceptable, ignoring the manual's rule against taking your eyes off the road to deal with passenger or child needs.
C. Have a passenger reach back while you keep driving.
The handbook does not offer a 'delegate to a passenger' option; it tells the driver to pull over to the side of the road and park before giving attention. Misreading: Substitutes a front-seat passenger reaching back for the manual's clear directive that the driver pull over to the side of the road and park.
D. Slow down and reach back with one hand.
Slowing and one-handed reaching still takes your eyes off the road; the handbook says to pull over to the side of the road and park. Misreading: Reads the rule as 'do not take your eyes off the road' alone and misses the second half: pull over to the side of the road and park your vehicle.
This question tests your knowledge of Distracted Driving in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Dangerous Driving Behaviors, Distracted Driving," p.80..
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