If an oncoming driver is heading toward you in your lane, you should:
- Blow your horn, steer right, and accelerate.
- Blow your horn, steer left, and brake.
- Blow your horn, steer right, and brake. ✓
- Stay in the center of your lane, blow your horn, and brake.
Answer: C. Blow your horn, steer right, and brake.
You should blow your horn, steer right, and brake.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's rule for a vehicle approaching in your lane is to sound the horn and flash your high beams, then steer to the side of the road. Steering right is the way to get out of that vehicle's path, since the left side is where the oncoming car is coming from. Adding braking to that response slows you down so you are more controlled as you move off to the side rather than carrying full speed with you.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Blow your horn, steer right, and accelerate. — Accelerating works against the point of the maneuver, which is to get out of the way under control, not to carry more speed with you.
- B. Blow your horn, steer left, and brake. — Steering left aims you toward the oncoming vehicle's path instead of to the side of the road as the handbook says.
- D. Stay in the center of your lane, blow your horn, and brake. — Staying in the center of your lane leaves you exactly where the oncoming driver is heading, when the handbook tells you to steer to the side of the road.
Remember it
Horn first to warn, then aim away from the threat - the oncoming car is on your left, so your escape is to the right.