Drivers left baffled by RACQ give way sign road rule quiz

The organisation took to Facebook yesterday morning with a polarising question about the order of vehicles at a three-way intersection with a slip lane – a puzzling conundrum that divided hundreds of motorists.

RACQ shared a graphic depicting three vehicles travelling onto a main road – a blue car driving straight ahead but behind a give way sign, a red car turning right onto the main road with a give way sign, and a green car merging onto the main road from a slip lane.

The group asked Facebook users to respond with which order the cars should go in, offering up four possible answers.

Almost 900 drivers responded to the tricky quiz, many of which struggled to come up with the correct answer – and many with a justification for why they thought they were right.

“[Green], Blue and Red car last. [Green] car remains on the left side and turns. The other 2 are going through an intersection and face Give Way signs,” one man guessed.

“Is green classed as being on a slip lane as that means he has to give way. Then, does give way to the right apply or you must give way if you have to cross the path of another car. I am thinking green (yellow), red then blue,” guessed another driver.

“It’s D. Green, Red, Blue. Green car is turning left and as red and blue cars are both on give way signs, then the right of way rules applies. Red car is on blue car’s right,” agreed another.

“According to Qld road rules, you must give way if you’re turning right across the path of an oncoming vehicle at an intersection AND you must give way when your (sic) turning left or right at an intersection – AND when there are stop or give way lines on the road … looking at this scenario, the green (actually yellow lol) car has right of way first, there is only give way lines on one side in front of the blue car but two lines in front of the red car which leads me to believe the blue car is more of an intersection on the main road (where cars can come from the other direction at any time too) – where as the red car is more of a side street T-intersection – therefore it is A – green car first, Blue car second, red car last,” one woman wrote in a lengthy justification.

Confused? Us too.

A number of commenters, who rather than answer the question, joked that “the designer of this intersection (if it really exists) should be relieved of their position and sent for retraining”.

“D I would think but geez that intersection would cause a lot of accidents so would hope there aren’t many of those scenarios around!” quipped one woman.

“I’d say D but don’t trust anyone just keep calm & go with the flow. If someone thinks they’re in a hurry let them go ahead,” said another.

“It’s better they’re in front of you then right up your clacker or worse, crashed.”

As for the correct answer, RACQ put everyone out of their misery – it was in fact D, meaning the green, then the red, then the blue car go.

“Green first as they are staying on the main road around the bed,” they explained.

“Red is next as both red and blue are facing give way signs, so blue must give way to a vehicle on the right.”