An Oregon intersection has dual right-turn lanes (two right-turn-only lanes side by side). You're in the left (inner) of the two right-turn lanes. As you make this turn, what must you do?
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A.
Follow the pavement markings and stay in your lane. Correct
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B.
Drift into the outer lane to give the other driver room.
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C.
Finish the turn as near as you can to the right curb, even if that means leaving your lane.
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D.
Turn into whichever open lane of the new road you prefer.
The answer is "Follow the pavement markings and stay in your lane."
When lane use control signs or pavement markings permit it, multiple lanes may turn in the same direction at the same time. In that case you must follow the pavement markings and stay in your lane while executing the turn, turning into the lane that corresponds to the one you started from. You do not change lanes during the turn. The manual lists swinging wide or changing lanes while turning among the turning errors to avoid.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Drift into the outer lane to give the other driver room.
Drifting across the lane line is the 'changing lanes while turning' error the manual tells you to avoid. The rule is to stay in your lane. Misreading: Misreads 'stay in your lane' as permitting drift between paired turn lanes, the p.41 'changing lanes while turning' error.
C. Finish the turn as near as you can to the right curb, even if that means leaving your lane.
The 'get as near as you can to the right curb' rule is for a single right turn. With dual turn lanes you must stay in your lane. Misreading: Misapplies the p.39 general right-turn rule ('Get as near as you can to the right curb') to the dual-lane case, where it overrides staying in your lane.
D. Turn into whichever open lane of the new road you prefer.
You must turn into the lane that corresponds to the one you started from and follow the pavement markings, not pick any open lane. Misreading: Misreads the p.41 rule to turn 'to the nearest lane in the direction you want to go' as free choice of any lane on the new road.
This question tests your knowledge of Turning in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Turns: Dual Left or Right Turn Lanes," p.40..
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