RULE OF THE RIGHT AT INTERSECTIONS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 4

RULE OF THE RIGHT AT INTERSECTIONS

TURNING VEHICLES REQUIRED

TO GIVE WAY

“The rule of the right is not absolute. Apparently there are still some motorists who do not realise that," H said the Chief City Traffic Inspector (Mr C. S. Nicholson) in an interview with a reporter of “The Press" yesterday. Motorists knew they had to give way to trams, whether on their right or their left, said Mr Nicholson, but what some did not realise was that in certain circumstances they were required by the regulations to give way to other motor vehicles on their left as well as on their right. This position arose wherever a motorist approached an intersection and his intention was to change direction at that intersection. The motorist must then yield way to both lines of approaching traffic—that on his left aa well as that on his right. The most common example of the motorist having to give Way on both hands was at a T intersection when he was approaching the intersection up the “leg’’ of the T. All traffic passing straight along the cross-piece of the T, in either direction, had the right of way against the motorist apJiroaching along the “leg" because the atter could not continue straight on >ut must make a turn in one direction pr the other.