Four-way stop · queuing
Four-way stops · Alberta Class 5 road test
Queue first, then stop again at the line; first come, first served
Watch the interactive demoHow to drive it
Going straight at a residential four-way stop: first stop in the queue behind the car ahead + come to a complete stop again at the stop line + first come, first served: the car from the left, the car ahead and the car from the right go first, your car last
In the correct demo, you yield to:
- Vehicle from the right going straight — Four-way stop: whoever stops first goes first. The other car came to a complete stop clearly before you (in this demo, more than 1 second earlier), so it goes first; wait until it has passed the conflict point before moving off.
Common mistakes
Rolling stop
Road test: automatic fail — L4 Stop sign violation
Nothing was hit this time, but it's still an automatic fail. At a stop sign you must come to a complete stop before the stop line or crosswalk, and go only once it's safe and you've yielded; going without stopping completely is running the stop sign, even with no one around.
Watch this mistake →Rolled over the stop line following the car ahead
Road test: automatic fail — L4 Stop sign violation
Nothing was hit this time, but it's still an automatic fail. At a stop sign you must come to a complete stop before the stop line or crosswalk, and go only once it's safe and you've yielded; going without stopping completely is running the stop sign, even with no one around.
Watch this mistake →Went before your turn
Road test: automatic fail — L2 Right of way violation - vehicle/pedestrian
Nothing was hit this time (just 5.6 m apart at closest approach), but it's still an automatic fail. The other car came to a complete stop clearly before you (in this demo, more than 1 second earlier), so it goes first; wait until it has passed the conflict point before moving off.
Watch this mistake →Related scenarios
- Four-way stop · arriving togetherStopped together: yield to the right; the car on the left yields to you
- Four-way stop · your car turns leftStopped together: the left turn yields to oncoming traffic going straight