A flashing yellow beacon above an intersection…?
- Warns you to drive with caution ✓
- Tells you to stop if making left turn
- Tells you to continue at same speed
- Tells you to stop if making left turn
Answer: A. Warns you to drive with caution
A flashing yellow beacon above an intersection warns you to drive with caution.
Why this is the answer
The handbook describes a flashing yellow beacon over an intersection as a warning to drive with caution. It says the same for a flashing yellow light: drive carefully as you approach and move through the intersection. That matches the choice about a caution warning. The passages do not attach any stop requirement to a flashing yellow beacon; the stop rule they give is for a flashing red beacon. So the correct response is to treat the yellow beacon as a caution signal, not as an instruction to stop or to keep the same speed.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Tells you to stop if making left turn — A flashing yellow beacon does not require you to stop before a left turn; the handbook gives the complete-stop rule for a flashing red beacon.
- C. Tells you to continue at same speed — The handbook calls for caution when approaching and moving through the intersection, not for continuing at the same speed.
- D. Tells you to stop if making left turn — The stop rule belongs to a flashing red beacon, while a flashing yellow beacon only calls for caution.
Remember it
Yellow flashing means caution; red flashing is the one that means stop.
Official handbook: Official MTO Driver's Handbook, Traffic lights – Flashing yellow beacon