Give Way rule

[Ragingrob]

The give way rule has never caused me issues. Get over it! If you think too much you'll hesitate which causes accidents, don't overthink the rule and confuse yourself I say.

[rwh]

I would be absolutely amazed if on a main highway, where a side-road intersects it, that the side road wasn't a controlled intersection! And, if not, then surely, anyone exiting the side road would exercise common sense. However, if both vehicles on the Main road were going STRAIGHT THROUGH as you stated, then they would have right of way in any case. It's only turning traffic that has to give way.

The example I gave had both going straight through, but one on the highway and one on the crossing road.
Have a look at the 6th pic in my post (#86) above - it's suburban streets, not open highways, but it's an uncontrolled 4-way intersection like I was describing. A car coming from the street on the right, and continuing across to the left, has right of way over traffic on the more major road the picture was taken from. AFAIK the dashed lines across the sidestreets have no significance. But would you expect that car from the right to just pull across in front of you?

Richard

[Ragingrob]

The example I gave had both going straight through, but one on the highway and one on the crossing road.
Have a look at the 6th pic in my post (#86) above - it's suburban streets, not open highways, but it's an uncontrolled 4-way intersection like I was describing. A car coming from the street on the right, and continuing across to the left, has right of way over traffic on the more major road the picture was taken from. AFAIK the dashed lines across the sidestreets have no significance. But would you expect that car from the right to just pull across in front of you?

Richard

How do they have right of way? The dashed lines signify the end of the road and the fact the you have to give way to all traffic continuing straight on the road you're about to pull into.

[rwh]

How do they have right of way? The dashed lines signify the end of the road and the fact the you have to give way to all traffic continuing straight on the road you're about to pull into.

How do they not? Both vehicles are going straight through, and there are no give way or stop signs. They're crossing from the right.

Dashed lines signifying the end of a road is not something I've come across anywhere ...

Perhaps it's not clear from the photo that the crossing road is in fact straight - it's not at right angles to the main road, which is why it might look like 2 roads that are offset a bit.
It does go straight through, and has the same name on both sides. If you want to see it on google maps, it's the intersection of Park Road and Revans St in Miramar, heading southwest from Camperdown Rd.

Richard

[Ragingrob]

How do they not? Both vehicles are going straight through, and there are no give way or stop signs. They're crossing from the right.

Dashed lines signifying the end of a road is not something I've come across anywhere ...

Perhaps it's not clear from the photo that the crossing road is in fact straight - it's not at right angles to the main road, which is why it might look like 2 roads that are offset a bit.
It does go straight through, and has the same name on both sides. If you want to see it on google maps, it's the intersection of Park Road and Revans St in Miramar, heading southwest from Camperdown Rd.

Richard

Well they must signify something right? Otherwise why are they there? They are saying that "This is the end of the road so give way to the dominant straight through traffic but you do not need to use the giveway rule otherwise".

But otherwise, if I'm in fact wrong regards the dashed lines, look at the last picture here - http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/roa...way-rules.html, where it is a completely uncontrolled intersection and you must just give way to your right as you say.

Although I'm pretty sure those dashed lines account for something. Perhaps it is a completely uncontrolled intersection but they advise the road-user to slow down and be prepared to give-way.