Why couldn't the team get a good look at the truck driver's face in the security footage?

• A. He wore a baseball cap and sunglasses.
• B. It was nighttime.
• C. He wore a mask.
• D. The camera was broken.

Answer: (A)

When trying to identify someone in security footage, visibility of facial features is essential. Wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses hides the eyes and surrounding area and also alters the silhouette, making distinguishing details hard to pick out. This combination effectively masks the most recognizable parts of a face, which explains why the team couldn’t get a good look at the driver.

Other scenarios would affect visibility in different ways, but they don’t fit as neatly with what’s described. Nighttime can blur details but often still leaves some facial cues visible; a mask would obscure more of the face, but the prompt highlights the cap and sunglasses as the cause; a broken camera would prevent any footage at all, which isn’t suggested here since there is footage being referenced.