Who Yields?

[Robert Myers]

The solution to your quandary is simple.  You yield.  Unless, of course,
you prefer to have him hit you.  It doesn't pay to argue right-of-way too
stringently regardless of who is "right".

At 06:17 PM 7/10/02, frank j. bauer wrote:
>At 02:48 PM 7/10/2002, Brandon Rogers wrote:
>>Hi all-
>>Here is a question that has been bugging me for many months.  Here's the
>>situation:
>>
>>You approach an intersection and are going to turn right.  The intersection
>>has a dedicated right turn lane, complete with a small pedestrian island
>>between the right turn lane and the staight lanes.  The right turn lane has
>>a YIELD sign and it merges immediately (no extended merge lane) with
>>traffic.  The lights at the interection are green (both your direction and
>>oncoming) and nobody has any arrows--just green.There is nobody going
>>straight in your direction as you enter the right turn --but a car in the
>>oncoming lanes is turning left to go in the same direction you are going to
>>be going.  Do you yield to him because you have a yield sign, or does he
>>yield to you because left turn traffic yields to oncoming?
>>
>>I'm sure some of this depends on local laws--but I'd love to hear some
>>thoughts--this bugs me every time I go to lunch.
>
>
>your "yield" is to those who have right of way.
>since the oncoming vehicle is making a left turn, it does not have the
>right of way to which you can yield.
>under the circumstances you describe, if you turning right approach the
>intersection simultaneously with another turning left, you have the right
>of way and the yield sign does not apply...
>
>frank
>

Bob
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