RIGHT OF WAY
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This document is meant to simply the concept of Right Of Way, once and for all. It will
explore the basic rules, important signs and explain all questions in the book.
Basic Rules
1. If you are at a junction where the roads are of equal importance (A four way for
example), the traffic on your right has right of way and the traffic on your left waits
for you.
2. If you are approaching a T junction, the traffic already on the road you are joining
has right of way. This means any traffic on the road ending at the junction must
wait for the other traffic to pass before turning left or right.
3. If you are turning right at a junction, the traffic coming straight (oncoming traffic)
through the junction has right of way.
4. If you plan to turn right at a junction and an oncoming vehicle wants to turn into
the same road, the vehicle that is turning left has right of way. If yours is the
vehicle turning right, you must wait for the other vehicle to turn first.
Signs controlling Right Of Way
If you see a ‘Stop’ sign, you must stop If you see a ‘Yield’ sign or yield line you
at the sign or at the stop line on the must slow down, but you do not have
road, even if there is no traffic on the to stop completely unless you need to
road you would like to enter. wait for any traffic to pass.
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This sign indicates a priority road and it is …. you remain on the priority road when you
normally accompanied by an arrow turn (left or right)……
below that indicates whether you remain
on the priority road when you turn (left
or right). The absence of an arrow, like in
this picture, means that you are on a
priority road as long as you continue
straight.
Priority at the (Intersection). If you see
this sign, you must proceed at the
next crossroads, but do so with
caution keeping an eye on other cars
who might not understand that you
have priority.
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Questions from the book, explained
The cyclist must pass because of rule 3
The cyclist must wait and you may continue and the motorcyclist must wait for you
because of rule 2. This is a because of rule 1.
T-junction, your car is already on the road
and the cyclist wants to join.
You allow the red car to proceed because
The red car proceeds before you because
of rule 1 and pass in front of the green
of rule 3 and the yellow car proceeds
car because of rule 1.
before you because of rule 1.
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You allow the truck to proceed because of
The cyclist must wait for you because of
rule 3 and the yellow car must wait for you
the STOP sign and rule 1 and you may
because of rule 1.
pass in front of the motorcycle because it
is facing a STOP sign.
You must allow the cyclist to turn because The blue car on the left must wait because
of rule 4 and the blue car must wait of rule 2 and the motorcyclist must wait
because of rule 1. because of rule 3.
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You must wait because there is a Yield sign
before you and there is a cyclist already on
the road, so you must let him pass and that You are not allowed to cross the
is when you may proceed. crossroads first because of rule 1 as the
truck has right of way over you and the
red truck may proceed after the cyclist
because of rule 1 as the cyclist has right
of way over the truck.
You are allowed to turn in front of the two
other cars because of the ‘priority at the
intersection’ sign before you, so the other
cars wait for you.
You must allow the blue truck to proceed
because of the Yield sign before you and
you must also allow the tractor to turn
because of the Yield sign. You will only
proceed after they have passed.
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You must allow the motorcycle to pass You must allow the motorcycle to
because of the Yield sign before you and proceed because of rule 3 since both of
you pass in front of the bus because of you (you and the motorcycle) are facing
rule 3 since the bus is also facing a Yield ‘priority at the intersection’ sign’. You
sign like you. proceed in front of the bus because the
bus is facing a Yield sign so it must wait.
You must allow the motorcyclist to turn
You must allow the tram to proceed in front of you because you are facing a
because there is a Yield sign before you Yield sign, so you must give way.
and you must also allow the motorcycle to
proceed because of the Yield sign. You will
proceed after they have passed.
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You may proceed first because both the
You may only turn after the motorcycle
tram and red car are facing Yield signs,
because of rule 4 and the priority sign before
so they have to give way to you.
you only gives you priority if you were going
straight. You may turn in front of the yellow
car because, the yellow car is facing a Yield
sign, so it has to wait for you to pass.
You must allow the tram to pass because of
You must allow the cyclist to proceed
rule 3. The priority road sign before you
because there is a STOP sign before you.
does not work for you because you are not
You must allow the bus to proceed
going straight.
because of rule 3, since both of you (you
and bus) are facing Stop signs.
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You must wait because, the ‘Priority road’ You must wait because; there is a Yield
sign before you, says that you only have sign before you. You may only pass when
priority if you are turning left. there are no other vehicles on the road.
You must wait because; there is a Yield sign You may proceed because the sign
before you. before you says that you remain on
priority as long as you are turning right.
You may proceed first because the sign
before you says that you remain on priority
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You must allow the motorcycle to pass You must allow the motorcycle and the
because, the priority sign before you, says blue car to proceed because you are
that you only remain on priority if you are facing a Yield sign, so you have to wait
turning left. So, here you are going straight, for them.
that is why you have to wait.
You may proceed because the priority
road sign before you, says that you
You must allow the red car to pass because remain on priority as long as you are
of rule 3 and you may turn in front of the turning right.
blue truck because; the blue truck is facing a
Yield sign.
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The car coming from the farm track must
You must allow the yellow truck to pass wait because of rule 2.
because, the priority sign before you says
that you remain on priority only if you are
turning left, but here you are turning right,
which is why you wait. You may pass in
front of the green car because it is facing a
Yield sign.
You must allow the yellow car to pass
because rule 1.
You must wait because of rule 2.
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You may proceed because of rule 2. The
motorcyclist must wait for you. You must allow the blue car to pass because
of rule 1 and you may proceed in front of
the motorcycle also because of rule 1.
You must give way to the blue car coming
from the right because of rule 1 and you
have priority over the red car also because of
rule 1. You must allow the cyclist to proceed
because you must give way to pedestrians
and cyclists crossing the road on pavement
side. You must wait for the blue truck
because of rule 1.
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You proceed first because you are facing a
You must allow the cyclist to pass because you ‘Priority at the intersection’ sign.
must give way to pedestrians and cyclists
crossing the road on pavement side. The
green car proceeds after the cyclist because of
rule 1.
The traffic light is green for you, so turn at
The green car must wait because the traffic brisk space (quickly)
lights are red. You may turn observing the
Yield sign in front of you.
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