On my drive in to school this morning my passenger and I came upon this intersection as usual.
Pretend we’re traveling along the red dots.
A car across the intersection (this would be the blue dots) is turning on solid green.
A person ahead of us stops at the yield sign to let the blue dot person, who has an opening and is in the process of making a turn on green, go by.
My passenger remarks that the person who yielded at the yield sign was a fool because they had the right of way since the other person was turning at the light.
This made no sense to me as the only law I can remember is that you are to yield at a yield sign to traffic in the road, which this car was as soon as it turned.
He was adamant that you only had to yield to the traffic coming straight through the light.
You see, he’s an expert on this because he used to work on computer equipment in a drivers license office. Note: not actually for the office, just repairing equipment. :rolleyes:
You don’t have to stop, but you have to slow down. And if it is required for safety then you have to stop. And if there is an accident, you will have to prove it wasn’t your fault.
Probably, but it’s pretty much a smallish intersection close to the yield, the person was already at mid-turn and within 10-15 ft of the person who stopped at the yield sign.
I guess my friend might’ve thought that the turner should’ve yielded to the yielder?
I dunno…it just really stuck in my craw about how he should know better because he’s did some work in the drivers license office.
I like the part of the FL handbook about “Who had the right of way?”
Nobody!
Your friend is an idiot and I hope he does not drive. I make such a left turn every day as I leave work and turn onto the Interstate on ramp (from an unsignalized intersection). I sometimes have to cross my fingers and hope that the car approaching its YIELD sign is going to obey the law and yield to me. Some do not, as I beat them to the intersection, and I’m sure they say “WTF?”
The purpose of such an installation is so that the traffic making the left turn does not have to stop and have any vehicles that are behind it be in danger of being stopped and then hit by someone coming fromlthe right on the road they are turning off of. At that location, they would normally (in most states) have to yield while making the left turn to oncoming traffic (from the right.)
The YIELD sign as located **can ** cause confusion to some folks who may think that because they are entering the intersection from the right that they should have the right of way if they get there at the same time as the other vehicle. If the sign were not ther, then they would have the r/o/w and the left turning vehicles would have to yield/stop for all of them, queueing back into the other intersection.
You mean they’d think they’d have right of way, right? Because looking at the picture, it’s not a right-hand turn. It’s a merge from the right to the left into traffic. With or without a yield sign, the merging traffic must yield right of way.
The friend is an idiot.
I don’t know the Florida code, but I’ll let you see if it’s the same as in Michigan. In Michigan, once a car has already been making a left turn, then that car has right of way. It also must be safe to make the left turn (you can’t just cut people off). I saved a friend an at-fault (insurance price increase) and got him out of the ticket by finding the relevant code once. The point is, it sounds like the left turner was already in the turn.
We have clarification…sorta.
For some reason he was thinking that the green light still applied to that lane.
Basically he was thinking of right on green, which does have the right of way over someone making a left from the opposite direction.
Without having to resort to the lovely cite (thanks again, Gfactor ), we got it straightened out.
As for the lame ass argument earlier, I think he’s just tired of me being right all the time. He should Dope more.
Howdy, Poonther! That would be the intersection by TCC: Appleyard and 20/Pensecola.
As for the idiot comments…everyone has one of those days.
He’s still a good person.
Just keep off the streets.