Who Yields?

[Huw Powell]

> 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?

You yeild.  Their "traffic control" is a green light, yours is a yield
sign.

it's the yield sing that changes everything - you are no longer
"oncoming traffic turning right," but someone in a ramp entering a road.

--
Huw Powell

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