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Yellow trap. The yellow trap is a type of road traffic situation that may arise at certain signalized intersections, involving straight-moving traffic conflicting with turning, crossing traffic, that has made an erroneous assumption that the conflict has been resolved, based on their received traffic signal. The name yellow trap originates from ...
Hand signals. Hand signals are agreed gestures that people make with their hands or body to communicate in a non-verbal way. When used in traffic, hand signals are often used to convey driver's intention of their next movement. In some countries, hand signals can apply to any vehicle whose signal lights are missing or damaged.
A hook turn, or two-stage turn, is generally used to allow lighter vehicles such as cycles or motorcycles to turn across oncoming traffic. Such vehicles when permitted can move to the nearside of the junction and position themselves in front of side road traffic, waiting for the side road traffic to gain a green signal before completing the turn.
Last year, Kansas City police ticketed or warned more than 400 drivers for failing to use a turn signal. When you took your driver’s test, the law was probably drilled into your head: Put on ...
For at least 100 feet. No signaling as you make the turn. Hand turn signals may be a thing of the past for many, but South Carolina law says you may use them if for some reason your blinker is broken.
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In New Zealand, where they drive on the left, when a road is given a green light from an all direction stop, a red arrow can continue to display to turning traffic, holding traffic back while the pedestrian crossing on the side road is given a green signal (for left turns) or while oncoming traffic goes straight ahead and there is no permissive right turn allowed (for right turns).
In vehicles with separate left and right green turn signal tell-tale on the dashboard, both left and right indicators may flash to provide a visual indication of the hazard flashers' operation. In vehicles with a single green turn signal tell-tale on the dashboard, a separate red tell-tale must be provided for hazard flasher indication.