If it is necessary to make an emergency stop while driving on an interstate, you should:
- Sound your horn at passing cars to get their attention.
- Get out of your vehicle and flag down the first vehicle that passes.
- Pull off the road, turn on your emergency flashers, and stay in your vehicle, if you can. ✓
Answer: C. Pull off the road, turn on your emergency flashers, and stay in your vehicle, if you can.
Pull off the road, turn on your emergency flashers, and stay in your vehicle, if you can.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's vehicle-trouble procedure says to turn on your emergency flashers, pull off the road away from traffic when possible, and then call for roadside help and remain in your vehicle until help arrives. Staying inside keeps you out of the traffic lanes where passing cars could hit you, and the flashers make your stopped car easier for drivers behind to spot in time. If you cannot get fully off the road, stop where people can see you and your vehicle from behind.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Sound your horn at passing cars to get their attention. — The handbook tells you to warn drivers behind you with flashers, brake taps, or a hand signal, not by sounding your horn at passing cars.
- B. Get out of your vehicle and flag down the first vehicle that passes. — Getting out and flagging down traffic puts you in the roadway, while the handbook says to stay in your vehicle until help arrives.
Remember it
Trouble on the interstate? Flashers on, get as far off the road as you can, and wait inside the car.