CONCERNING RIGHT-HAND TURNS AT INTERSECTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 347, 30 April 1935, Page 2

CONCERNING RIGHT-HAND TURNS AT INTERSECTIONS.

Au Interesting Point.

A correspondent has raised the question of the rights of motorists at intersections.

His proposition is this: A is going cast, and B, going west, makes a turn to the right, across the path of A. Which should give way? Both, he says, are on each other’s right until B makes the turn.

It is not safe driving, and therefore baTd motoring, to make a turn across the track of through traffic, if, in .the judgment of the driver making the turn there is risk of collision. The off-side rule deals with two vehicles approaching an intersection, but In the case of B its driver, "having arrived at tbc intersection, makes a manoeuvre winch does not place him on the right of A but directly in front or at almost half-right, a, position. which is not dealt with by regulations. Speed and distance arc the governing factors, and it is a common sense, if unwritten, rule that any driver wishing .to change direction should not do so until the way is clear and until, horn and arm signals have been given. If the way ih clear tnen the through driver A would be sufficiently far away to make .the question of right-of-way unnecessary.