Car permit · Crashes and insurance
Your car scrapes a parked vehicle, causing minor damage, and you cannot locate the owner. What are you required to do?
Correct answer: Leave a note on the car with your name, phone number and address.
Answer options
- ALeave a note on the car with your name, phone number and address Correct
- BLeave the scene, since no one saw the crash happen
- CWait by the parked car until its owner returns, however long it takes
Why
If you damage an unattended vehicle and the owner cannot be found, you must put a note in plain view on it giving your name and address plus a phone number, so the owner can reach you. Driving away without leaving that information counts as leaving the scene of a crash, and the law does not make you wait for the owner.
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