Right-of-Way and Intersection Rules
What the exam tests
Right-of-way questions test who yields when signs fail, how to enter roundabouts, and how to protect pedestrians and cyclists. Lebanon drives on the right, so the geometry of every junction matters.
Core rules
- At an uncontrolled junction, the default is priority to the right: yield to traffic approaching from your right. Signs, signals or markings override this default.
- A stop sign requires a full stop, then a yield. A give-way sign requires slowing and yielding without necessarily stopping. Do not enter unless your exit is clear.
- At a roundabout, yield to traffic already circulating, which approaches from your left in right-hand traffic. Signal right when leaving.
- When turning across traffic, yield to oncoming vehicles and to pedestrians. A vehicle going straight generally has priority over one turning left across its path.
- Emergency vehicles using sirens or flashing lights should be given way, but not by making a dangerous move.
- Pedestrians on a zebra crossing have priority.
Worked example
You reach a four-way uncontrolled junction and want to turn left. A car approaches from your right, and a pedestrian waits at the crossing on your exit road. You yield first to the car from the right, then to the pedestrian before completing the turn. Reasoning: priority-to-right applies first; the pedestrian is on your path, so turning would conflict.
Traps
Assuming a green light gives absolute priority; entering a roundabout without yielding; waving another driver through when it creates confusion; forgetting that turning traffic must yield to pedestrians; treating a give-way sign as a stop sign or a stop sign as a give-way.