Right-of-way rules, intersections and roundabouts
What this domain tests
Junctions are where most Saudi motorcycle crashes happen, so the exam tests whether you can establish who must yield - and show that intention early enough for other drivers to read it.
Core rules
- Uncontrolled junctions: with no signs, signals or markings, give way to traffic approaching from your right, and never enter unless your exit is clear.
- Turning across traffic: a vehicle turning left across oncoming traffic waits. A vehicle entering or leaving a side road yields to traffic on the main road and to pedestrians crossing that side road.
- Stop and give-way lines override the right-hand rule: the sign decides, not the geometry.
- Emergency vehicles with lights and siren have priority; ease right and slow, never brake suddenly in their path.
- Roundabouts (right-hand traffic): circulating traffic comes from your left, so you yield on entry, pass right of the central island, travel anticlockwise, and signal right before your exit. Never stop inside the circle to give way.
Worked example
You reach a four-way junction with no signs. A car approaches from your right, a lorry from your left. The car has priority and you wait. Had the car been on your left while you went straight, you would go first - but only after confirming the car is actually slowing and has seen you. Priority is not a force field.
Traps
Assuming the wider road always has priority where no sign exists; entering a roundabout because the circulating car 'looked far away'; stopping mid-roundabout and inviting a rear-end hit; waving another driver through, which creates confusion and transfers blame; blocking a junction in a queue; and overtaking a vehicle that has stopped at a zebra crossing.