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Posted: 4/19/2017 10:53:31 AM EDT

Okay, I've seen this situation a million times, and I've seen a good bit of inconsistency in driver behavior. I want to see what y'all think:

Blue car is turning right onto a side street. Green car is turning left onto the same street. Who gets to go first, and who has to wait? The only signage is the stop sign at the tee for the side street traffic to stop. (Yes, I know it's a hexagon. It's built into MS Paint.)

Posted: 4/19/2017 10:54:19 AM EDT

[#1]

Blue car.

ETA: 4511.42 Right-of-way rule when turning left.
(A) The operator of a vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley intending to turn to the left within an intersection or into an alley, private road, or driveway shall yield the right of way to any vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley approaching from the opposite direction, whenever the approaching vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley is within the intersection or so close to the intersection, alley, private road, or driveway as to constitute an immediate hazard.

Posted: 4/19/2017 10:55:04 AM EDT

[#2]

Blue car first.

ETA:
Oklahoma Statutes Citationized
Cite as: 47 O.S. § 11-402 (OSCN 2017)

The driver of a vehicle intending to turn to the left shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction which is so close thereto when initiating such turn as to constitute an immediate hazard.

Posted: 4/19/2017 10:55:06 AM EDT

[#3]

Blue

Posted: 4/19/2017 10:55:14 AM EDT

[#4]

Right turn always has right of way unless otherwise signed.

Drives me fucking insane that in the past 5 years EVERYONE has forgotten this.

Posted: 4/19/2017 10:56:42 AM EDT

[#5]

Turning left loses to turning right.

Also remember for the driver's exam, the great Meatwad once said, "Pedestrians have the right of way, unless...you IN the way."

Posted: 4/19/2017 10:56:56 AM EDT

[#6]

Left turn I think always yields to right turns. At least mostly

Posted: 4/19/2017 10:58:02 AM EDT

[#7]

My green brodozer is bigger. I win.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:00:13 AM EDT

[#8]

Blue car...

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:01:03 AM EDT

[#9]

Why would the blue car stop? Would the blue car stop for the green car if it was going straight?

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:02:28 AM EDT

[#10]

Which one is the illegal alien driving a POS rust bucket from the 1960's that hasn't passed smog, hasn't been registered in four years, and has no insurance?

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:03:27 AM EDT

[#11]

Anyone ever hear of a "Pittsburgh left"

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:04:14 AM EDT

[#12]

Is one of them a Jeep?

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:05:14 AM EDT

[#13]

In that situation the blue car has right of way.
If there was a traffic light and green car had green arrow then blue would need to yield.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:06:12 AM EDT

[#14]

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Why would the blue car stop? Would the blue car stop for the green car if it was going straight?

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Because many of those types of intersections have YIELD signs for the blue car.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:06:21 AM EDT

[#15]

If you have to cross a lane of traffic to turn (barring stop sign, light, other traffic control device, etc) anyone coming the other way has the right of way.

Blue car, all day.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:07:10 AM EDT

[#16]

In most question like this, the answer can be guessed by asking the question, "What will expedite traffic movement"?

In this case, the green car has to drive through two traffic lanes to complete the turn. The blue car doesn't have to cross any. Therefore, letting the blue car go first will move traffic faster , or expedite traffic movement better.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:07:13 AM EDT

[#17]

OP must live where there's a bunch of Indians. I've lost count of how many times I've sat there in an intersection waiting for one of them to make their right hand turn so I can then make the left hand turn only to have them stop halfway through their turn and stare at me like they're wondering if I'm gonna turn.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:07:31 AM EDT

[#18]

Semantics, but an important distinction...in Texas, no vehicle is granted the right of way. The law specifies when operators are required to Yield to others, but that places no privilege or right on the other vehicle. One must always drive with due care for others on the roadway. Just because the green car is required to yield, does not mean that the blue car can "claim" the ROW and purposely crash into the green car if the red one fails to yield.

As a side note, if the blue car turns legally, the green car can turn into the left lane at the same time the blue car turns into the right lane.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:09:26 AM EDT

[#19]

Vehicle closest to the lane being entered always has right of way.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:11:01 AM EDT

[#20]

They should put a roundabout there.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:12:02 AM EDT

[#21]

Brue car unless it has a yield sign.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:12:05 AM EDT

[#22]

San Luis Rd in Walnut Creek has that exact same layout. The people behind the stop sign are expected to yield. Sometimes there is a CHP motorcycle making sure they do it.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:12:47 AM EDT

[#23]

From back in my day, the guy in the blue car has to roll his window down, stick his/her left arm out of the window, parallel to the roadway, then bend his arm from the elbow at a right angle straight up, showing his intent to turn right. The driver turning left has to roll his window down and put his arm out of the window parallel with the roadway indicating a turn to the left.

I don't see any arms in your picture.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:13:03 AM EDT

[#24]

As someone who was an auto claims adjuster with three years experience (I'm the guy you told what happened and decided if you got paid) I can tell you that in every state I handled (which was about 40/50) the blue car would have ROW given the diagram provided.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:15:07 AM EDT

[#25]

The driver turning left is almost always in the wrong even if the other driver is drunk.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:16:38 AM EDT

[#26]

Blue car has the right of way 9 times out of 10. I live near a high school that has that same exact situation as your paint, and there's a yield sign. I take the yield sign as meaning yield to kids not the retards turning left, so I don't yield for them.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:18:24 AM EDT

[#27]

blue car

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:20:48 AM EDT

[#28]

BMW and Volvo has the right of way. Never mind the law or if you're the blue car. The Beemers and Volvo drivers own the road and how dare you slow them down with your right of way.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:21:09 AM EDT

[#29]

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Because many of those types of intersections have YIELD signs for the blue car.

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Why would the blue car stop? Would the blue car stop for the green car if it was going straight?

Because many of those types of intersections have YIELD signs for the blue car.

In Georgia, this is true. Most intersections do have "Yield" signs for the blue car, so the green car would go first. No "Yield" sign, the blue car goes first. Georgia is the only state that I know of that puts "Yield" signs out there like that.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:22:51 AM EDT

[#30]

Thank you for the replies. I have to agree with the majority. Glad to see it.
When I'm the blue car, it pisses me off when the green car just comes barreling across as I'm just about to turn right, forcing me to slam on my brakes.

If I have a yield sign, it makes sense for me to have to wait, but there usually isn't one.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:24:55 AM EDT

[#31]

Blue

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:27:23 AM EDT

[#32]

If there is no stop sign for blue at that corner, then blue has the ROW.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:29:42 AM EDT

[#33]

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Anyone ever hear of a "Pittsburgh left"

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Never heard it called that, but after looking it up, I've seen it from time to time. Guy waiting to turn left at an intersection with a traffic light jumps the light and scoots left before oncoming traffic starts to move forward? Yeah, I've seen it, and it's irritating. I just hope for his sake that no one on the cross street is trying to speed through just after their light turns red.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:32:04 AM EDT

[#34]

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BMW and Volvo has the right of way. Never mind the law or if you're the blue car. The Beemers and Volvo drivers own the road and how dare you slow them down with your right of way.

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Escalade and Denali soccer moms on their phones trump beamer and volvo drivers err'day.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:32:08 AM EDT

[#35]

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In most question like this, the answer can be guessed by asking the question, "What will expedite traffic movement"?

In this case, the green car has to drive through two traffic lanes to complete the turn. The blue car doesn't have to cross any. Therefore, letting the blue car go first will move traffic faster , or expedite traffic movement better.

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The blue car, in its dedicated turn-only lane, isn't impeding traffic on the main road in either direction. It can sit there all day long and not block traffic (until enough cars fill in behind it and eventually back up into the through lane). The green car is a bottleneck on all through traffic in its lane until it completes the turn.

*I voted for the blue car having the right of way.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:34:16 AM EDT

[#36]

Blue

Here's the situation that I ran into the other day. I'm the left turning Green car. I'm waiting as there's a string of right turning 'blue' cars. A left turning car at the stop sign decides it doesn't want to wait and proceeds to zip out and turn left in front of me.

I just watched them thinking "You impatient jackwagon". Should I have been an asshole and moved forward to block their left turn leaving them stuck/blocking a lane of traffic?

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:34:32 AM EDT

[#37]

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They should put a roundabout there.

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I'm actually becoming a fan, as long as they are designed correctly. I think I saw two stop signs when I was in England for two weeks, and everything went fine.
Roundabouts aside, most of our stop signs also need to be replaced with yield signs.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:38:02 AM EDT

[#38]

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Thank you for the replies. I have to agree with the majority. Glad to see it.
When I'm the blue car, it pisses me off when the green car just comes barreling across as I'm just about to turn right, forcing me to slam on my brakes.

If I have a yield sign, it makes sense for me to have to wait, but there usually isn't one.

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Get a car camera. Proceed to intersection.

Watch for impending video revenue streaming in when you post the retarded driver on youtube.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:43:21 AM EDT

[#39]

Blue car has the ROW.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:47:14 AM EDT

[#40]

Who cares? Somebody hit the gas and fucking go. Stop staring at each other like it's a contest to get the other driver to blink. Take your hand off your dick and MAKE AN EFFORT.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:48:05 AM EDT

[#41]

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Right turn always has right of way unless otherwise signed.

Drives me fucking insane that in the past 5 years EVERYONE has forgotten this.

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Posted: 4/19/2017 11:50:16 AM EDT

[#42]

The car with the most lug nuts has the right-of-way. If cars are equivalent, vehicle turning right has ROW.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:52:44 AM EDT

[#43]

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Right turn always has right of way unless otherwise signed.

Drives me fucking insane that in the past 5 years EVERYONE has forgotten this.

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Nailed it.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:55:26 AM EDT

[#44]

Blue car, if not otherwise indicated by signage.

Posted: 4/19/2017 11:58:53 AM EDT

[#45]

Blue car.

Have wrote tons of tickets to the green car out of traffic crashes

Posted: 4/19/2017 12:02:15 PM EDT

[#46]

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Why would the blue car stop? Would the blue car stop for the green car if it was going straight?

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This. Rule of thumb is that if you're crossing a lane, you yield to that lane regardless of turn signals.

Posted: 4/19/2017 12:04:24 PM EDT

[#47]

Blue. Generally anyone crossing lanes must wait.

Posted: 4/19/2017 12:04:49 PM EDT

[#48]

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Blue car has the right of way 9 times out of 10. I live near a high school that has that same exact situation as your paint, and there's a yield sign. I take the yield sign as meaning yield to kids not the retards turning left, so I don't yield for them.

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A yield sign means you yield to traffic, someone turning left without a traffic signal would have the right of way to you and your traffic signal.

Posted: 4/19/2017 12:06:41 PM EDT

[#49]

Blue car

Posted: 4/19/2017 12:08:31 PM EDT

[#50]

I seriously can't wait for auto driving cars. Not for me, for the yobs that didn't pay attention to learning this very basic stuff.

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