Who Yields?

[Tom Nas]

"Brandon Rogers" <brogers at terrix.com> wrote:

>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?

Here in Holland, whoever makes the shortest turn has the right of way- that
would be you turning right, here.

Regards, Tom