A woman sitting at a red light is pulled from her car by a man who then drives away. What crime occurred?

• A. Robbery
• B. Carjacking
• C. Kidnapping
• D. Theft

Answer: (B)

Carjacking involves forcibly taking a motor vehicle from the driver. In this scenario, the attacker uses physical force to pull the woman from her car and then drives away with it. The crime centers on the vehicle itself being taken from the driver by force, which fits the definition of carjacking.

Robbery generally covers taking property from a person with force or intimidation, but the key factor here is that the target is a car and the act is aimed at seizing the vehicle from the driver. Kidnapping would involve abducting the person for some purpose unrelated to stealing the car, and theft would lack the necessary use of force against the driver to take the vehicle.