Before turning left, it is important to:
- Sound your horn.
- Yield to oncoming vehicles. ✓
- Swing to the right side of your lane.
- Wait until oncoming traffic has a red light.
Answer: B. Yield to oncoming vehicles.
Before turning left, you must yield to oncoming vehicles.
Why this is the answer
The Florida handbook says that before you turn, you must give the right of way to pedestrians in the crosswalk and to oncoming traffic. It repeats this for a green light: when you turn left, you must yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians. So the safe and legal left turn starts with letting oncoming vehicles go first when they have the right of way.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Sound your horn. — The passages do not say to sound your horn before a left turn.
- C. Swing to the right side of your lane. — The passages do not tell you to swing to the right side of your lane; they focus on yielding to oncoming traffic.
- D. Wait until oncoming traffic has a red light. — The passages say to yield to oncoming traffic, not to wait until oncoming traffic has a red light.
Remember it
For a left turn, think: oncoming traffic goes first.