Post-Crash Procedures and Reporting
What this domain tests
This domain tests the legal and safety steps after a collision: stopping, protecting the scene, caring for passengers, reporting, and preserving your CDL testing obligations.
Core rules
- Stop immediately. Do not leave the scene. Turn on hazard lights and set out warning devices if equipped and safe.
- Call 911. Report location, injuries, vehicles, and hazards. Give first aid within your training; do not move injured passengers unless there is immediate danger such as fire.
- Move the bus only if it blocks traffic and can be moved safely; otherwise leave it and keep passengers in a safe area away from traffic.
- Exchange names, addresses, license, registration, and insurance information. Do not argue fault or admit liability.
- Notify your employer immediately. Complete the carrier’s crash report and any state report required.
- Federal post-crash testing: after a fatal crash, an injury requiring immediate medical treatment away from the scene, or disabling damage, the CDL driver must submit to alcohol testing within 8 hours and drug testing within 32 hours.
- Report a traffic conviction to your employer within 30 days under the CDL rules.
Worked example
A bus is rear-ended; a passenger complains of neck pain. The driver moves the bus out of traffic, then lets the passenger walk to a bench. Correct reasoning: moving the bus may be reasonable if safe, but an injured passenger should not be moved unless danger requires it. The driver should call 911, keep the passenger still, and report.
Traps that cost marks
Leaving the scene. Moving injured passengers. Missing the 8-hour alcohol testing window. Admitting fault. Failing to notify the carrier.