When turning left at an intersection:
- You should always yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians. ✓
- Oncoming traffic and pedestrians should yield to you.
- You should never yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians.
Answer: A. You should always yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians.
When you turn left at an intersection, you yield to oncoming traffic and to pedestrians in your path.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's left-turn rule says to check for pedestrians and give the right-of-way to any pedestrian or approaching vehicle close enough to be a danger. It repeats the same idea elsewhere: when a left-turn arrow is not protected, you turn only after yielding to oncoming traffic, and when turning left you always yield to pedestrians. So the left-turning driver waits for the gap and for the crosswalk to clear instead of assuming others will stop.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Oncoming traffic and pedestrians should yield to you. — This reverses the rule — the handbook puts the burden on the driver turning left, not on the oncoming traffic or the people in the crosswalk.
- C. You should never yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians. — Refusing to yield would put you into the path of approaching vehicles and pedestrians, which is exactly what the handbook's left-turn and pedestrian rules tell you to avoid.
Remember it
Think of a left turn as asking permission: the crosswalk and the oncoming lane go first, and you go when the gap is clear.