Who must yield when a driver is turning and a pedestrian is crossing without a traffic light?
- Whoever started moving last
- The driver ✓
- Whoever is slower
- The pedestrian
Answer: B. The driver
The driver must yield to the pedestrian when making a turn.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's rule for turning is repeated at signals: before you turn, you must give the right of way to pedestrians in the crosswalk. When a pedestrian is already crossing in front of your turn, you wait and let them finish. The passages show this rule in signal situations rather than at an uncontrolled crossing with no light, so the same yielding principle still points to the driver waiting for the pedestrian.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Whoever started moving last — Who moved first has nothing to do with it; the turning driver is the one the handbook tells to yield to someone in the crosswalk.
- C. Whoever is slower — Speed is not the test at all, and waiting for a slower walker is exactly what yielding means here.
- D. The pedestrian — The pedestrian is the one being protected, so the person in the crosswalk does not have to give way to a turning vehicle.
Remember it
Remember it as: the vehicle doing the turning is the one that stops and waits for feet in the crosswalk.