Practice: Junctions, Intersections & Right of Way

Choose an answer to see straight away whether it is right, and why. Read the rule first if you need to.

Question 1 of 16

At an uncontrolled intersection (no signals, signs or police), which vehicle has the right of way?

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Answer D. At an uncontrolled junction, vehicles approaching from the right have the right of way. This does not apply when you leave a minor road to join a major road.

Question 2 of 16 Safety-critical

What must you do at a STOP sign?

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Answer B. STOP means stop: halt before the stop line (or before the sign if there is no line), give way to traffic on the major road and to pedestrians, and enter only when it is clear. A rolling stop is not a stop.

Question 3 of 16

The light is green, but traffic beyond the junction has stopped and there is no room for your car. What should you do?

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Answer D. Regulation 9 prohibits entering an intersection where traffic has come to a standstill, even on a green light.

Question 4 of 16

You are leaving a minor road to join a major road. Does the 'give way to the right' rule decide priority?

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Answer C. The right-side rule does not apply when you emerge from a minor road onto a major road. Traffic on the major road has priority.

Question 5 of 16

A traffic police officer is directing traffic at a junction where the signals are working. Whom do you obey?

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Answer C. Directions from a police officer or authorised person override the signals and the normal junction rules.

Question 6 of 16

What does a Give Way sign require?

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Answer A. At a Give Way sign, slow early enough to assess the road. If another road user would have to brake or swerve because of you, wait.

Question 7 of 16

You are driving out of a petrol station onto the road. Who has priority?

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Answer B. A vehicle emerging from a property must give way to traffic already using the road. Check the footpath for pedestrians and cyclists too.

Question 8 of 16

At a STOP sign there is no stop line painted on the road. Where should you stop?

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Answer D. If the STOP line is absent or not visible, stop immediately before the sign.

Question 9 of 16

Another driver at a junction makes eye contact with you. What does that mean?

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Answer D. Eye contact does not change right of way. Use road position, speed, signs, signals and actual movement to decide.

Question 10 of 16

You have right of way, but a car from a side road pulls out in front of you. What should you do?

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Answer C. Having right of way is not a reason to cause a crash. Avoid the collision even when the other driver should have given way.

Question 11 of 16

What must you do at this sign?

Red eight-sided sign with the word STOP in white
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Answer D. STOP means a complete stop, not a rolling stop. Give way to traffic on the major road and enter only when clear.

Question 12 of 16

What does this sign mean?

Upside-down triangle with a red border and white centre
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Answer B. Slow down, be ready to stop, and give way to traffic on the road ahead.

Question 13 of 16

What does this sign warn you about?

Red-bordered triangle with a black cross shape
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Answer B. Slow down at the junction and be ready to give way.

Question 14 of 16

What does this sign warn you about?

Red-bordered triangle with a vertical black bar and a shorter bar joining it on the right
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Answer D. Watch for vehicles coming out of the side road.

Question 15 of 16

The traffic beyond this junction is not moving. What should you do?

Top view of a junction with a yellow criss-cross box in the middle; the blue car waits before it
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Answer C. Do not enter a yellow box unless your exit is clear. Never stop inside it.

Question 16 of 16

You are in the blue car. What do these markings mean?

Top view of a side road meeting a main road, with a double broken white line and a white triangle painted on the side road
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Answer A. A double broken line, often with a triangle, is a give-way line.