A funeral procession is moving down an Oregon road with funeral flags on the vehicles. May you join the procession to take advantage of moving through traffic with them?
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A.
Joining or driving between vehicles in the procession is illegal. Correct
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B.
Joining is allowed with hazard lights on.
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C.
Joining is allowed if a police escort leads it.
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D.
Joining at the back of the procession is allowed.
The answer is "Joining or driving between vehicles in the procession is illegal."
Oregon law forbids non-members from joining or driving between vehicles in a funeral procession. Funeral processions are exempt from certain rules of the road (they may enter intersections without stopping and don't have to obey traffic control devices), but those exemptions apply only to procession members. Other vehicles must yield right of way to funeral processions. The back of the line looks harmless, and that's what makes D tempting; the manual bars non-members from joining anywhere in the procession, position irrelevant.
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B. Joining is allowed with hazard lights on.
The manual lists no exception that lets hazard lights authorize a non-member to join the procession. This answer invents a hazard-light exception; the rule about non-members joining has no such workaround in the manual.
C. Joining is allowed if a police escort leads it.
A police escort does not change who is legally part of the procession or allow outsiders to join. This answer treats a police escort as authorizing non-members; the manual ties procession membership to the funeral group, not to escort presence.
D. Joining at the back of the procession is allowed.
The law bars non-members from joining the procession at all, not just from driving between its vehicles. This answer treats the back of the procession as a permissible exception; the manual makes no distinction by position within the procession.
This question tests your knowledge of Sharing the Road in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Sharing the Road - Funeral Processions," p.57..
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