One of the more difficult aspects of driving and one of the most
dangerous aspects of driving is turning right at traffic lights.
There are two different scenarios you could encounter at traffic lights - that is a green
light with a green arrow or a green light with no arrow. This particular set of lights does have the
provision for an arrow so when the lights turn green we should be able to proceed safely. Okay
the lights of turn green with a green arrow so we can go. Notice the cars opposite us are waiting -
they're on a red light so it's completely safe for us to go. Now this next set of lights also has a
green arrow so when these lights change to green it'll be completely safe for us to go as well.
Okay the lights have turned green and there is a green arrow so it's completely safe for us to go.
Coming down to traffic lights again - this set of lights does have the green arrow. We
get past this laneway on the right and then we indicate. Now the car in front has stopped
over the white line - that's illegal! If you do that in your driving test you'll fail!
Okay, lights are green - with a green arrow - so we can go safely.
just following a safe distance behind the car
in front - a two second gap is what's considered safe.
Coming down to the next set of traffic lights we're turning right but this particular set of
lights does not have a green arrow so we cannot proceed safely if there is traffic
coming the other way. In this particular case there is traffic coming the other way. We go
out towards halfway and we wait just before this is painted diamond on the road and we
wait until it's safe to go. Now there are cars coming and we're trying to see past
these cars that are opposite us. Because we can't see we're not 100% sure it's safe - we
just wait. Now it's safe and we go. In this particular case I'm going straight to the
left lane because we generally drive in the left lane. To get to the left
lane I just had on right indicator on and I went directly to the line of my choice.
Now this set of traffic lights ahead does not have an arrow. When it's time for us
to go right at this corner, we'll have to go out halfway and wait for the traffic.
Okay. We go out roughly halfway as you can see there's a painted diamond on the road
in front of us. We don't drive in the diamond. And we sit here with our wheels straight. Wait
for it to clear and then we go. I'm going to go directly to the left lane. I'll glance across
to my left just go across to make sure that that one's pushing into that lane.
Now this next set of traffic lights does not have an arrow. It also doesn't have a painted diamond
in the middle of the intersection. When the lights turn green we'll go out halfway and we'll wait for
all of the traffic coming towards us to clear. We must wait for all of that traffic - that's
the traffic going straight ahead and the traffic turning left. If there was a car turning right
and that was the only car then we could proceed at the same time as them but for now we'll wait
for all of this traffic. We wait about here roughly halfway up with our wheel straight.
Right, the road has cleared and we can go - straight to the lift lane.
now we're going to turn left to the next street just glance at the road in front of us there are
lines pasted on the road to show that there are actually two lanes where you can turn right from
okay we're going live so you won't worry about that but if anybody was going going right at those
lights they would have a choice of one of those two lanes what that means though is that they
must stay in their lane for the entirety of the turn you still potentially traffic in both lanes
okay up ahead there's a merger but how do we know that because there's a sign in front
of a saying form one lane and the lane divider the paint on the road there it runs out pretty
soon so we check out mirrors which you go central mirror and I write very we indicate
to the right and we check out blind spot to the right and then we can gradually drift
across it the one remaining line and we cancel air indicator no no the traffic lights ahead
is the red light and a red arrow when those lights change there'll be a green light and
a green arrow the traffic coming towards us in the other direction will be still facing
a red light so the two cars to my right the gray car on the blue car will be able to go
straight away quite safely on the green arrow this is the green light we can go straight ahead
we got the green light and the green arrow as you can see we're going straight ahead and that
traffic returning and the other traffic facing us is stopped I've had the lights of turn green
there is no arrow we come out halfway almost out to the diamond on the road and we wait if
we're not 100% sure we don't go I can't see past the cars in front of me so I don't go all right
I'll happily wait here until the lights change to Amber and make me change to red if it's not
safe to go I'm still not going to go because I can't see now I can see past that car and I'll go
okay coming down to traffic lights with no green arrow
we drive into the intersection and we stop halfway until it's safe to
go okay that cartoonist of a fair way away from the corner we can go down
and get around safely I'm turning right here at these traffic lights
this set of lights has no green arrow and there will be traffic facing us we can see
it all coming down the street now they win the lights change I'll go out halfway just before
the painted Dimond on the road in front of us and I'll wait until it's safe now because that SUV in
front of us is now going to turn right that's blocking my view so I'll have to go out there
and wait there's also a four-wheel drive behind it so more than likely we'd have to go out there and
wait even after all the traffic but I can see has gone past I'll still have to wait because I can't
see past the car I need to be a hundred percent sure from 99.9% sure that's not good enough I'm
lives across pretty much leveled with the gray car in front of me but I still can't see past it
that guy's gone this Dilip a little dark blocking my view there's a smaller cow
coming around now now I can say okay I got I strike the deadline
to help turn right down here this set of lights does have an arrow at the moment it's a green
light with the red arrow just changed to an amber so I'm going to stop now you'll notice
in front there's some painted lines on the road it's not a diamond which you would normally see
at traffic lights but those lines are there to guide me and the cars opposite me as to where
we should turn the corner so when I turn the corner I'll go between that solid line that's
the closest to me and the broken line now you can see the lights of turned green but there's a red
arrow so I can't go it's a green arrow with a red light that means that wood car coming
towards me of also has a green arrow we've both proceed at once we both go to our side of those
lines that way we keep out of each other's way okay once again coming up to the merge
point that we're not changing direction the cars in front do indicate because they are
changing direction we don't we check our central mirror our left mirror which is our left blind
spot in sight we just continue in a straight line now we're turning right of these traffic
lights these lights did not have an error so we have to go out halfway and wait until it's
safe lots of turn green will go out here we'll keep our wheels nice and straight and we'll wait
right here you know position myself so I can see down past the kind but look safe and I'm going
after the view that the camera had it probably looked like a dangerous
manila but from my position in the driver's seat
I could see past that car quite a distance and see that it was clear
here's a pedestrian crossing the road that we're turning into okay if that pedestrian
was a little bit further back we wait for him because he's crossing the road that
we're turning into once again we stay half on the brick pavers on the road which after this
guy he doesn't realize that he's actually standing on the road we need to get back
over here because we've got a car coming the other way so it's quite dangerous driving on
this street because as I said the pedestrian don't know that the brick pavers is part of the roadway
okay coming down to this set of lights returning right and there is no arrow
lots have changed I'll go out here and I'll wait halfway to cars turning so I can't see
past them okay now I wait for these cars if the lights turn amber I still wait until it's
safe to go this cars turning the corner lots of turned amber I must wait and see what that guy
does he's waiting so now I can go ok the lines of change to red as I went around but that's
ok because when I entered the intersection life was great the guy going past me now he
was behind me in the intersection and went around on the red line if he was doing his
driving test it would have failed because he must have waited he should have waited behind
the white line until I was definitely going now you'll notice up ahead there's a vehicle parked
facing the oncoming traffic that's illegal to do that engender life if you park your car facing
the oncoming traffic you will be fined by the local Ranger I know it's legal in the UK but
it's illegal in Australia we can get your license never Park facing oncoming traffic
and here we are on Grand Boulevard two lanes each way it looks like a main road the speed limit is
15 now we're turning right at the traffic lights these lights have done it to have an
arrow in front should go out halfway and wait until it's safe to go we will stay behind the
white line because I need one car at a time he's allowed to white in the intersection so the kind
of goes there and waits I went beyond the line I make sure he's going and then I go the reason I
make sure he's going is because he may have made a bad decision and have to stop halfway around
if he stops and I've already gone past the white line they don't stuck out there now in this case
all our turn driver is in so I'm gonna go straight to the right lane on my left indicator now we can
see up ahead that is a green arrow and a red line that technique is going around on the green arrow
it's still grain that's still grain and it's still green it's turning up in there but I'm
committed and so around I go gonna turn right at the roundabout so I stay in the right-hand
Lane the road I want to turn right very soon so I go straight to the right lane
right please
we said it Lots does have an arrow I think I might getting you to like miss out on the era yep so
probably after yta for a couple of minutes okay we've got a red lock and a green arrow
strike two that line just glanced across the first months when I was going in his life
coming down to these Lots these like to do have a narrow green light and bring
our meeting with traffic facing us is whitey and safely go around the corner
okay coming down to this set of lights there's no arrow so when the lights changed the tower in
front of us should go out halfway and wait and we should wait behind the solid white
line just to make things more complicated there's a little bit of rain around but
it's important that you get practice in the rain as well okay lots of grain the current
front guys at halfway and then wait until it sight that should be a bit further out once
they've decided it's safe to go weaken guys so we got at halfway and we like
to excite the guy yeah it's safe to go we can see quite clearly that there's no cars coming
okay attending right they said a lot
with another arrow lots of change we go out halfway we can't see past the four-wheel drive
locked up turned an but we're waiting to see what this traffic's doing it's stopping so we
can go okay but don't read as we were going around but that's okay we haven't broken any
road rules we were waiting until it was safe and then we got out of the intersection because we
entered the intersection when the lights were green we didn't break any traffic regulations