When approaching a T intersection, drivers:
- Should yield the right-of-way to cross traffic. ✓
- Have the right-of-way.
- Should force their way into traffic.
- Should back up and turn around.
Answer: A. Should yield the right-of-way to cross traffic.
Drivers approaching a T intersection should yield the right-of-way to cross traffic.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's T-intersection rule covers a street that ends at a through street. In that situation, the driver on the ending street must stop and let vehicles on the through street go first. Cross traffic at a T intersection is the traffic on that through street, so yielding to it matches the rule. The other choices describe taking the right-of-way, pushing into traffic, or turning around, none of which the handbook gives as the rule for this intersection.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Have the right-of-way. — Having the right-of-way is not correct here because the road that ends at the through street must stop and yield to vehicles on the through street.
- C. Should force their way into traffic. — Forcing your way into traffic goes against the handbook instruction to stop and yield to vehicles on the through street.
- D. Should back up and turn around. — Backing up and turning around is not what the handbook says to do at a T intersection; it says to stop and yield.
Remember it
Picture the through street as the main road: if your road ends there, you wait for it to clear.
Official handbook: Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7), Chapter 3: Safety Responsibility , p. 20