Four-way stop · your car turns left
Four-way stops · Alberta Class 5 road test
Stopped together: the left turn yields to oncoming traffic going straight
Watch the interactive demoHow to drive it
Turning left at a residential four-way stop: you and the oncoming car stop almost together (you less than 1 second earlier) + it goes straight and you turn left, so you yield: wait for it to pass, then turn
In the correct demo, you yield to:
- Oncoming vehicle going straight — Four-way stop: arriving together from opposite sides, a left turn yields to straight and right turns. You and the oncoming car stopped at the same time; you're turning left and it isn't, so it goes first.
Common mistakes
Arriving together, turned left first
Road test: automatic fail — L2 Right of way violation - vehicle/pedestrian, L11 Hits vehicle/object
Your car hit another vehicle. You and the oncoming car stopped at the same time; you're turning left and it isn't, so it goes first.
Watch this mistake →Related scenarios
- Four-way stop · queuingQueue first, then stop again at the line; first come, first served
- Four-way stop · arriving togetherStopped together: yield to the right; the car on the left yields to you