CA Traffic Law - U-turn at 4-way Stop

Is it legal or illegal to make a U-turn at a 4-way Stop intersection, with no signs forbidding a U-turn? (In a commercial zone, 2 lane streets, if it matters).

I’m not talking about a 4-way light, I’m talking about an intersection with 4 stop signs.

Thanks.

here is the vehicle code

You can’t make a u-turn in a business district.

…except at an intersection.

Sounds like your scenario is OK.

I’ve been living in CA for about 15 years, and the one that still grabs my attention is the occasional “U TURN ONLY” sign, typically where a left turn would head you the wrong way on a one-way street.

But otherwise, as the DMV site shows, you can make a U turn at just about any intersection, as long as there’s not a sign telling you otherwise.

Same page also describes one of my favorite turns for scaring people that aren’t from here - left turn on red onto a one-way street. Right turn on red seems to be almost universal across the US, but left on red might be unique to CA.

Left turn on red from a one-way to another one-way street is legal in Ohio. I don’t know if it’s legal in Massachusetts, but people do it.

No, it’s not unioque to California. Minnesota traffic laws allow it too (unless the intersection is posted against it).

The left turn on red law was part of the gasoline-saving measures that the federal government mandated in the 70s. I thought that left turn on red from a one-way street into a one way street was also part of this mandate so that it woudl be legal everywhere in the U.S. unless posted against it (and in either NYC or Manhattan I forget even when not posted against it.) I’d love a cite though as I’ve done this and had others tell me I’m crazy it’s not allowed.

Dang make that “Tthe right turn on red law…”

To continue the hijack, a left-turn on red from one one-way onto another is legal. Cite.

Legal in Massachusetts, that is.