If you are facing a green traffic light but the intersection ahead is blocked by traffic, you should:
- Turn left and find another route.
- Stay out of the intersection until traffic clears. ✓
- Follow the other vehicles and enter the intersection.
Answer: B. Stay out of the intersection until traffic clears.
Stay out of the intersection until traffic clears, even though your light is green.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says you cannot enter an intersection when traffic is backed up on the other side and you cannot get completely through. It tells you to wait until traffic ahead clears so you do not block the intersection. A green light does not cancel that rule. If there is no room for your car on the far side, you wait before the intersection until there is space.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Turn left and find another route. — Turning left and finding another route is not what the handbook directs here; the rule is to wait before entering when traffic is backed up, not to change your route.
- C. Follow the other vehicles and enter the intersection. — Following other vehicles into the intersection does not make it safe or legal when you cannot get completely through, and the handbook says to wait until traffic clears.
Remember it
If you cannot get all the way across, do not start across.