If a person is turning left at a light with a left turn arrow and it's green and another person is turning right on a red light onto the same road who has the right of way?

The person with the green arrow, the person with the red light has to give way.

Right turn on red is only after you stop and have yielded to other traffic.

green arrow

green arrow; the one facing the red IS REQUIRED to stop before turning (and yield right-of-way)

If you have a drivers license you should know the answer. Turning right on red must yield to any green light.

I think she was just trying to make a point. Sheesh.

I do have a drivers license, and I do know that the person with the green arrow has the right of way.

Do you have a drivers license?

I can't believe 8% choose the red light.

I know, that makes me wonder.

Maybe they are trying to make a point?!?!?

what point would that be? That they don't know how to drive? If so, point taken.

That was a bit of a silly answer. There are millions of people out there that have a driver's license and still get pulled over each year for not knowing, or following, the road regulations.

Both "persons" have the right of way. Pedestrians always have the right of way.

If by "persons" you mean "vehicles", then the vehicle turning right on red must yield
to other vehicles and pedestrians.

(Turning right on red is illegal in many places, including New York City.)

Maybe that 8% are people who have had it drilled into their heads that making a left hand turn, the person must always yeild to oncoming traffic.

I chose the right turn on red, for the same reasons pointed out above, that at a red light a right turn must yeild to any current traffic.

Green arrow

The green light of course.

Although most people interpret the "right on red" rule as "right through red!".

Marilyn and Peter,

How is it known that millions of people don't know the law and do this? I don't have any data, but I think that if you drive (have a drivers license) , the probability of knowing this basic rule of the road must be very high, certainly the majority. (the poll result suggests this.) It's very basic driving knowledge, let alone common sense. Not knowing the purpose of the question, my answer wasn't silly

I was wondering if there are states where it is illegal to turn right on a red light. I should have stated that is legal to turn right on a red light in California unless stated otherwise.

The reason I posted this thread is because I was driving the other day and ran into this situation. I had a green arrow to turn left and someone came flying up to a red light to turn right onto the same road I was turning onto and didn't stop and almost ran into my car so I honked at him and he gave me the finger... I just wanted to see if it is common knowledge that the green arrow has the right away. It does seem like a no brainer that any green light has priority over any red light but I thought I would ask anyways.

If it isn't, it should be.

I think the real question based on your experience is do people know they are to come to a complete stop.....

That too... but I was wondering if people think that with a green arrow I was supposed to let that bastard go first. (even though in my heart I know he shouldn't go first)

It's simple Green Arrow, because a vehicle at a red light never has the right of way.

I want to know who the 2 people are who voted the wrong way. I want to tear their licenses up.

garya,

I can. The anecdotal evidence here on VJ clearly indicates that people mis-read questions all the time, the answer they give not being what the question asks for.

(Did it myself just today.)

Yodrak

its also possible your thinking about this too hard!

sarah and hicham,

He was wrong to go through the red light without stopping first to check if his way was clear, but keep in mind that you had one bit of information that he did not have - he could not see that you had a green arrow.

If he was not familiar with the intersection he would have had no idea that the traffic facing him was free to make the turn you made.

Good thing you were more alert and responsible than he was.

Yodrak

That's true Yodrak, although where I live is a college town with a bunch of crazy drivers. It looked like a young guy. Either way, he should have stopped and made sure no one was going before he decided to bolt.

I've had people honk at me for coming to a full stop before taking a right on red. They just wanna speed right through. Stupid a$$holes!

jenn,

On my obnoxious days, that honk from behind is my signal to stay at a full stop and wait for the light to turn green before making the turn.

Yodrak

Why do you do that?

very obviously, to piss that person off.

My father used to always say "Right-of-way is something you never have, but may have to yield at any time."

That is, despite the fact that the person with the green arrow does, in fact, technically have right-of-way ... well, a fat lot of good it does you if the other person smashes into you! You can never assume that the other drivers know the rules.

Greem arrow !

We should have German driving instruction here, prior to license issuance. They have one of the most stringent driving programs in the world. Driving is a privledge there, not a right, as it is here. No wonder there are so many accidents. Too many idiots on the road.

Well you know Sarah, you do have to have a LEGITMATE reason for posting the poll..i.e. you or Hicham made an error, can't agree, etc because heaven knows we are not allowed to ask a question out of mere curiosity.

There are places where you could get shot for something like that.

For those that know, in Morocco ARE THERE ANY RULES?????

The green arrow, the one with the red light is required to yeld before turning. And I got my driver's license yesterday so if I was asked this before coming to the States I would still give the right answer, even tho I didn't know you could turn right when the light is red.
PS: in Brazil if the light is red you can't turn right, you have to wait for it to turn green, or if there's a green arrow.

Congrats

I don't even have to have an obnoxious day to do this. If someone has been on my bumper all the way up to this stop, I'll stay stopped until I have a green light. I can't stand when someone is on my bumper...as if I'm not speeding fast enough for them!

Philly

jenn,

To be extra certain that someone I don't see doesn't come out of nowhere and hit me because I was paying more attention to the horn behind instead of the road ahead.



Yodrak

Yes, that is why you should be on the look out always.. He was lucky this time, next time he may hit someone and seriously hurt someone or killed, then him being in a hurry will be a major problem. Or a cop will be close by and he will get a ticket..

I would of let him him my car, he would most likely also get sited for that infraction.. so his insurance rates will go up high..
just my opinion

I understand now. LOL. When I read it, I thought you meant that you honk at people from behind to try to get them to *not* take a right on red.

Yeah, seems a no brainer. There is that percentage of the driving pubic that are bad drivers. Either they don't know the rules, or they know them and don't follow them. Maybe it's just me getting old, but it seems that the percentage of stupid drivers is increasing. When I said "if you have a license" I meant anyone, not you specifically. Sorry.

jenn,

I understand your response now, also! Another reminder that writer and reader often see the same words as saying two different things.

Yodrak

No problem... I assumed that it was implied that I was driving and that I do have a license.