You have a steady green arrow to turn left at an intersection. What best describes your right-of-way?
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A.
Oncoming traffic has a yield sign, so you should still watch closely for approaching vehicles.
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B.
You must still yield to any oncoming vehicles before completing the turn.
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C.
Your turn is protected because oncoming traffic is stopped by a red light. Correct
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D.
Your turn stays protected even if the arrow changes to a plain green light before you finish.
The answer is "Your turn is protected because oncoming traffic is stopped by a red light."
During the steady green arrow phase, your turn is protected because oncoming traffic is stopped by a red light. Choice B is the common trap: drivers half-remember the plain-green left-turn rule (yield to oncoming before turning) and apply it here, missing that the arrow overrides that duty by holding oncoming traffic at a red.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Oncoming traffic has a yield sign, so you should still watch closely for approaching vehicles.
Oncoming traffic faces a full red during the arrow, not a yield; that hard stop is what makes the turn protected. This answer downgrades the red facing oncoming traffic to a yield out of habit, because a cautious 'always watch for oncoming' rule of thumb feels safer than trusting a signal to fully hold the other side.
B. You must still yield to any oncoming vehicles before completing the turn.
The yield-to-oncoming duty applies during the plain green phase. During a green arrow, oncoming traffic is held by a red, so no yield is required. This answer applies the plain-green left-turn rule (yield to oncoming before turning) to every left turn, because the plain-green case comes up more often and its rule sticks harder than the arrow's exception.
D. Your turn stays protected even if the arrow changes to a plain green light before you finish.
Once the green arrow turns into a green light, you may still turn but must first yield to pedestrians and oncoming traffic. The arrow's protection ends with the arrow. This answer reads 'protected' as a promise that lasts the whole turn rather than a phase-specific label, so the driver assumes the protection carries across the light change instead of resetting when the arrow drops.
This question tests your knowledge of Right of Way in Pennsylvania. Source: Pennsylvania Driver Manual, "Signals: Red, Yellow and Green Traffic Lights and Arrows," p.7..
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