Traffic Light Signals

The essentials

This topic presents the main traffic-light signals, signals with arrows and additional sections, and their combinations. It is important to understand not only the colour, but also the exact direction in which movement is permitted and whom you may still need to give way to.

What to remember

Red prohibits movement, yellow usually warns of a signal change and also restricts movement, while green permits movement subject to all remaining priority duties. Flashing green indicates that the permissive phase is ending. A green arrow in an additional section permits movement only in the indicated direction; when it is lit together with red/yellow, traffic moving in that direction must give way to road users moving from other permitted directions.

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Are you obligated to give way to a passenger car if you intend to make a right turn at an intersection?

1. Obligated
2. Not obligated

The correct answer: Not obligated

The correct answer is you are not required to yield to the passenger car. The green signal permits your right turn, while the vehicle approaching from the cross direction must wait at its prohibiting signal. Before turning, still check the crossing, yield to pedestrians, and confirm that the other car has stopped.

In which picture does the driver of the blue car have the priority rightof driving over the other driver?

1. Left
2. Right
3. Both

The correct answer: Both

The correct answer is “Both”. The order is determined by active control and priority signs, then by road status and, under equal conditions, the right-hand rule and intersecting paths. Remember the order: control → priority signs/road status → right-hand rule when conditions are equal.

Which of the vehicle driver should give way?

1. Truck
2. Passenger car

The correct answer: Passenger car

The correct answer is “Passenger car”. The order is determined by active control and priority signs, then by road status and, under equal conditions, the right-hand rule and intersecting paths. Remember the order: control → priority signs/road status → right-hand rule when conditions are equal.

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