What must you do before turning right on a steady red light where turns on red are allowed?
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A.
Signal, then turn as soon as the cross-street signal turns yellow.
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B.
First stop, then check for and yield to pedestrians and other traffic. Correct
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C.
Wait for the red to change to green before beginning the turn.
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D.
Slow down and merge into the crossing traffic without stopping.
The answer is "First stop, then check for and yield to pedestrians and other traffic."
A steady red allows a right turn only after you first stop and yield to pedestrians and other traffic. Drivers who treat right-on-red like a yield sign and roll through pick D; those working from a blanket "red means wait for green" pick C.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Signal, then turn as soon as the cross-street signal turns yellow.
Your steady red controls you; you may turn only after stopping and yielding to pedestrians and traffic, and the cross-street's yellow is not permission to begin the turn. This answer times the turn off the cross-street's yellow warning, borrowing a folk shortcut for anticipating a green without doing the stop-and-yield the manual requires.
C. Wait for the red to change to green before beginning the turn.
The manual grants a right-on-red allowance after you stop; waiting for green forfeits an allowance the manual explicitly gives. This answer applies the default any-red-means-wait-for-green rule and misses the manual's explicit right-turn-on-red exception.
D. Slow down and merge into the crossing traffic without stopping.
A steady red requires a complete stop before any right turn; slowing without stopping is what a yield sign allows, not what a red light allows. This answer reads the right-on-red allowance as permission to roll through when traffic is clear, importing yield-sign behavior into a stop rule.
This question tests your knowledge of Turning in Pennsylvania. Source: Pennsylvania Driver's Manual, "Signals: Red, Yellow and Green Traffic Lights and Arrows," p.7..
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