A passenger is injured and lying still after a crash. What does the manual tell you about moving them?
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A.
Do not move or lift them unless it is absolutely necessary. Correct
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B.
Roll them onto their side to keep their airway open.
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C.
Sit them upright so that they can breathe more easily.
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D.
Move them to the shoulder to keep them clear of traffic.
The answer is "Do not move or lift them unless it is absolutely necessary."
The manual is explicit: do not move or lift an injured person unless absolutely necessary, and if a victim must be moved, get help and try not to change the position they were found in. Drivers who learned the recovery position in a first-aid class (rolling an unresponsive breathing person onto their side) reach for that step at a crash, which is what makes choice B tempting.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Roll them onto their side to keep their airway open.
Routine repositioning isn't the crash-scene default. The manual reserves any movement for cases of absolute necessity, and even then says to get help and try not to change the position the victim was found in. This answer imports the recovery-position technique for an unresponsive breathing person from a general first-aid class and treats it as the crash-scene default the manual instead limits to absolute necessity.
C. Sit them upright so that they can breathe more easily.
Sitting a crash victim upright can aggravate unseen spinal injuries, and the manual doesn't offer it as first-response guidance. This answer reads breathing-support advice from fainting or shock scenarios in general first-aid contexts as the crash-scene default the manual instead limits to absolute necessity.
D. Move them to the shoulder to keep them clear of traffic.
The manual doesn't make moving to the shoulder the routine default. Only move an injured victim if traffic or another immediate danger makes it absolutely necessary, and even then get help and try not to change the position they were found in. This answer applies the roadway-safety habit of clearing stalled vehicles and shaken bystanders off the traveled way to an injured crash victim, treating clearance from traffic as the routine step when the manual reserves any move for absolute necessity.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in Texas. Source: Texas Driver Manual, "Chapter 11: Motor Vehicle Crashes, Aiding the Injured," p.60..
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