Who Yields?

[Michael Riebs / Audi V8]

Left turn ALWAYS yields to oncoming traffic!!!!! The yield sign in your turn
lane is for "right turn on red" situations.

Of course, as Robert Myers (robert at s-cars.org) so astutely pointed out -
when in doubt: YIELD. He's right - rather safe than sorry - but the
left-turner MUST yield to you, the oncoming traffic. You are NOT entering
HIS (her) traffic lane - you are BOTH entering a DIFFERENT traffic lane than
the one you were in. But who wants to argue AFTER the accident, rather than
prevent it. Good point Robert.

What really irritates me is while sitting at a rural 4-way stopsign, those
pesky left-turners OFTEN dash across as I want to go straight, not following
the rules - OR alternatively, while I am the left-turner, the straightgoer
"waves" me to turn in front of him (or most often HER). I REALLY wish there
were some more strict guidelines on traffic education in connection with the
driver's testing in this country! MANY, many accidents could be avoided! And
much money would be saved in my pocket on insurance premiums!

JMHO, YMMV, and I am not a professional attorney!

 Michael L. Riebs
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 '90 V8Q
'98 A6QA

 www.1stchoicegranite.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandon Rogers" <brogers at terrix.com>
To: "a4list" <a4 at audifans.com>; "urquattro list" <urq at audifans.com>;
<quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 5:48 PM
Subject: Who Yields?


> Hi all-
> Here is a question that has been bugging me for many months.  Here's the
> situation:
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> 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?
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> 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.
>
> Brandon
> '98 A4
> '84 ur
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