Who gives way to whom?

[Ragingrob]

I consider myself pretty onto it in terms of road rules, they all make sense to me and seem easy enough. Here is one intersection just down from my place where I'd be keen to see what the general consensus is.

Pretty much, these cars are technically on the same road as the centre line signifies. The red car is turning right off the main road into the side street and the blue car is going straight through into the side street. Or would you call that turning left off the main road as going "straight" signifies staying on the main road??

So who gives way?

I would be thinking that the red car has right of way as the blue car must give way to their right... What do you guys think? The other thought could be that since the blue car is going 'straight', they just go for it, but I don't like this idea as both cars are turning off the main road.

Opinions/Comments wanted!



EDIT:

Quoted from the road code:

"If you are turning at an intersection, give way to all vehicles not turning"

"If you are leaving the path of a marked centre line, you are turning. You must give way to vehicles that are following the centre line"

"If you are turning left at an intersection, give way to vehicles coming towards you that are turning right"

So from those three points, we have to say that the blue car is technically turning. They are definitely not turning right, so they must be turning left. Therefore, they must give way to the red car turning right.

Haha, guess I solved it myself!

Any disagreements? I'm keen to hear.

[Starky307]

Blue should give way if you follow the law to the letter, IMO.

Or the bigger vehicle has right of way.

Is this the intersection next to the dairy near spookers by any chance?

[Ragingrob]

Blue should give way if you follow the law to the letter, IMO.

Or the bigger vehicle has right of way.

Is this the intersection next to the dairy near spookers by any chance?

Cool cool... Na come back 2mins towards the motorway near TeHihi school and it's down Kidd Rd.

Cheers for your opinion.

[Supertwin Don]

UK rules - red car TURNING RIGHT gives way to anything else
Kiwi rules - ???????? (but if red car is bigger than blue car......)

[Gubb]

Blue has to give way.

[Squiggles]

Blue should be, but probably wont...

[Ragingrob]

UK rules - red car TURNING RIGHT gives way to anything else
Kiwi rules - ???????? (but if red car is bigger than blue car......)

Yeah that's the same as Aussie too... We have special rules haha!

Yeah I'm pretty much trying to work out whether I have the right to pull the fingers if they are in fact in the wrong haha

[Hitcher]

"Right of way" is something other road users give you. If they don't give it to you, you haven't got it.

[BMWST?]

I reckon red,he is effectively turning right and crossing the centre line

[Ragingrob]

"Right of way" is something other road users give you. If they don't give it to you, you haven't got it.

You'd take hours to get from one side of Auckland to the other with that point of view! Ya don't get much from anybody round here

[Ragingrob]

I reckon red,he is effectively turning right and crossing the centre line

Just like when you turn right off a road into side streets anyway? Yet those turning left must give way! So that argument ain't valid for sure.

[roadracingoldfart]

RED has to conceed to BLUE.

BLUE has a straight line route but RED has to cross a centre line .

Also the RED car looks like a HOLDEN and we all know HOLDENS have to give way to FORDS.

Why dont people choose a GREEN car anymore ???

[sil3nt]

I just google mapped it and it looks like one big mess of an intersection on a rural road. Why do they not just make it a normal T intersection?

[Ragingrob]

Quoted from the road code:

"If you are turning at an intersection, give way to all vehicles not turning"

"If you are leaving the path of a marked centre line, you are turning. You must give way to vehicles that are following the centre line"

"If you are turning left at an intersection, give way to vehicles coming towards you that are turning right"

So from those three points, we have to say that the blue car is technically turning. They are definitely not turning right, so they must be turning left. Therefore, they must give way to the red car turning right.

Haha, guess I solved it myself!

Any disagreements? I'm keen to hear.

[Cheshire Cat]

I would say the red gives way to the blue....I would in that situation anyway(judging by the diagram).