You experience a tire blowout while driving in Oregon. What's the correct response?
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A.
Speed up to clear traffic before stopping.
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B.
Turn the wheel sharply to compensate for the pull.
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C.
Grip the wheel firmly, slow gradually, pull off. Correct
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D.
Brake hard and pull off immediately.
The answer is "Grip the wheel firmly, slow gradually, pull off."
Grip the steering wheel firmly, slow down gradually, then pull off the road. Hard braking on three good tires and one shredded one is destabilizing. A front blowout causes a strong pull to the side; a rear blowout causes the back to weave or sway. The grip-and-coast response keeps you on a straight path while losing speed. Answer D swaps the manual's gradual slowing for hard braking, the very input that sends a blown-tire vehicle into a swerve.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Speed up to clear traffic before stopping.
Speeding up with a blown tire is unsafe. This answer inverts the manual's rule to slow down gradually.
B. Turn the wheel sharply to compensate for the pull.
Sharp steering can put the vehicle into a roll or spin. This answer misreads 'grip the steering wheel firmly' as active sharp steering inputs.
D. Brake hard and pull off immediately.
Hard braking with a blown tire can cause the vehicle to swerve out of control. This answer substitutes hard braking for the manual's instruction to slow down gradually.
This question tests your knowledge of Vehicle Equipment in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Vehicle Equipment Failures > Blowouts," p.84..
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