As most of you know, I'm a trained driver. (quit laughing) That said, a crazy idea came to me to help those of you less fortunate who hadn't had the opportunities afforded me of several years of class room instruction and enjoyable, hands-on driver-training that included backing, turning, parking and high speed driving, to say nothing of having to enforce said laws being critical of others when I saw the necessity to call attention to them, the errors of their ways. "What, no one told me I have to stay in this lane all the way through my turn, officer!"
Hint # 1.
If a highway has been designed to provide a single center lane to be used only for turning by traffic moving in both directions, the following rules apply:
(a) A vehicle may be driven in the center turn lane only for the purpose of making a left-hand turn onto or from the highway.
(b) A vehicle must not travel more than 200 feet in a center turn lane before making a left-hand turn from the highway.
(c) A vehicle must not travel more than 50 feet in a center turn lane after making a left-hand turn onto the highway before merging with traffic.
I wonder what the legislatures where thinking when they wrote these rules....we don't carry tape measures to determine our accuracy of distances traveled, nor would there be a time we could actually pre-measure any distances. Rule of thumb: (approximations have to work) a normal front yard in a residential area is about 60 feet across. Hopefully this will save you aggravation in the event an on coming car wants to occupy this same turn lane you're in! Henry Ford predicted it would come to this and that's why cars have horns. (you guys probably already knew these facts though)
(a) A vehicle may be driven in the center turn lane only for the purpose of making a left-hand turn onto or from the highway.
(b) A vehicle must not travel more than 200 feet in a center turn lane before making a left-hand turn from the highway.
(c) A vehicle must not travel more than 50 feet in a center turn lane after making a left-hand turn onto the highway before merging with traffic.
I wonder what the legislatures where thinking when they wrote these rules....we don't carry tape measures to determine our accuracy of distances traveled, nor would there be a time we could actually pre-measure any distances. Rule of thumb: (approximations have to work) a normal front yard in a residential area is about 60 feet across. Hopefully this will save you aggravation in the event an on coming car wants to occupy this same turn lane you're in! Henry Ford predicted it would come to this and that's why cars have horns. (you guys probably already knew these facts though)
This is your friendly trained driver, signing off. Happy Motoring.
5 comments:
As my laughter subsides at your trained driver comment, I will head to the car with a tape measure for safety's sake.
Thank you "Mr Trained Driver" maybe you can add more posts and give more tips as we go on.
I hate when I am turning right and the light is green at the same time another driver is trying to turn left onto that same street. I always thought if the light is green the person turning right has the right away first. Am I right? Or maybe I have been wrong this whole time. There are people out there that just don't know how to drive. (This is just one example I have)
I don't know all the rules. When I moved to California I had to take the written test. I didn't study for it because I didn't know I would have to take a test. John passed and I failed. I had to go study and take it again.
Do you think you could put together a brief commercial of what you know to show up here in Utah? It's needed.
You're semi-correct, Tracey. State law says a vehicle must maintain the travel lane it's in during the turn; ie, right turns stay in right lane, left turns stay in left lane... you both merge into your own lane. Unless you're competing against an 18 wheeler. Yield!!
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