One way street (three lanes if that matters). You and another car are on a street perpendicular to the one way road. Facing each other. Let's say you arrive at the same time. You are going straight. The other car is turning left onto the one way road.
The Right of Way - A driver approaching an intersection must yield the right of way to traffic already in the intersection. §1140(a)
If drivers approaching from opposite directions reach an intersection at about the same time, a driver turning left must yield to approaching traffic going straight or turning right. §1141
At intersections not controlled by signs or signals, or where two or more drivers stop at STOP signs at the same time and they are at right angles to one another, the driver on the left must yield the right of way to the driver on the right. §1140(b)
A vehicle entering a roadway from a driveway, alley, private road or any other place that is not a roadway must stop and yield the right of way to traffic on the roadway, and to pedestrians. §1143 and §1151-a
Oh, but that said, I think enough people don't know the rules for those situations that it can't hurt to yield either way and signal to the other person that you'll let them go first (unless they gesture to you).
Yeah, what v said. The person entering the intersection first has the right of way, and if it's simultaneously, the person turning left yields. But, for example, at the 4-way stop near my house nobody ever seems to actually follow that, it's kind of a random free for all and you just try to be careful.
I thought that it was always the car to the right, but I am a terrible driver, so don't listen to me!
Assuming you reach the intersection at the same time (b/c if not, the car entering first has the right of way) -
At a four way stop, if you reach the intersection at the same time, yes, you are supposed to yield to the driver to your right.
If you're approaching from opposite sides, however, there is no driver to your immediate right. You're facing one another. And in that case, the car turning yields to the car going straight through.
So what about a two way road where you get there first and are turning left, but have to wait for a car before you can turn. They show up after you, and are turning right. So you're both waiting for the same car. It's times like these I wish that that question was on my written exam instead of one about horses and buggies with blinders . . .
I thought that it was always the car to the right, but I am a terrible driver, so don't listen to me!
Assuming you reach the intersection at the same time (b/c if not, the car entering first has the right of way) -
At a four way stop, if you reach the intersection at the same time, yes, you are supposed to yield to the driver to your right.
If you're approaching from opposite sides, however, there is no driver to your immediate right. You're facing one another. And in that case, the car turning yields to the car going straight through.
So what about a two way road where you get there first and are turning left, but have to wait for a car before you can turn. They show up after you, and are turning right. So you're both waiting for the same car. It's times like these I wish that that question was on my written exam instead of one about horses and buggies with blinders . . .
If they show up after you while you're already waiting at the stop line, you go first. If you were waiting for a car directly in front of you, you let them go if they are at their stop line before the other car clears the intersection.
So what about a two way road where you get there first and are turning left, but have to wait for a car before you can turn. They show up after you, and are turning right. So you're both waiting for the same car. It's times like these I wish that that question was on my written exam instead of one about horses and buggies with blinders . . .
If they show up after you while you're already waiting at the stop line, you go first. If you were waiting for a car directly in front of you, you let them go if they are at their stop line before the other car clears the intersection.
But if they can go while you're still waiting for it to open up then they can go.
Person turning left should always yield if someone's coming straight.
If you get to the intersection at the same time the person going left yields to the person going straight. I don't think people know that's how it's supposed to be where I live because the other day this situation came up. I was going straight and the person across form me was turning left. I started slowly going through the intersection and that person was making a left and not yielding. They slowed down, honked and yelled at me like I was in the wrong. People are crazy about it. I wanted to chase her down and school her (I would never do that). But of course she probably would have been strapped and she'd shoot me or something in a road rage incident.