Intersections — Connecticut Permit Test

An intersection is any place where traffic merges or crosses, including cross streets, side streets, driveways and shopping center or parking lot entrances.

A driveway is an intersection. Treating it as one is what stops a car appearing from a parking lot being a surprise.

Intersections are any place where traffic merges or crosses.

Before entering an intersection, look both left and right for approaching vehicles, bicycles and crossing pedestrians.

A green light says the other traffic should stop. Looking is how you find the one that does not.

Before you enter an intersection, look both left and right for approaching vehicles, bicycles, and/or crossing pedestrians.

Before turning left across traffic, look for a safe opening; oncoming traffic, including bicycles, has the right-of-way.

A left turn crosses the path of everything coming the other way, and the bicycle in that stream is the one nobody sees.

Remember, oncoming traffic, including bicycles, always has the right-of-way.

Before turning right, make sure no traffic is approaching from your left and no oncoming vehicle is turning into your path.

A right turn looks like the safe one, so drivers check less. The car turning left into the same lane is what catches them.

Before turning right, make sure that there is no traffic approaching from your left and no oncoming traffic turning into your path.

In Connecticut you may turn right at a red light after stopping, unless a traffic sign prohibits it.

The stop is the condition, not a formality. The sign is what takes the turn away entirely.

You may turn right at a red light after stopping, unless it is prohibited by a traffic sign.

State law requires a driver at an intersection with an inoperative stop light to stop as though the intersection was controlled by a stop sign.

A dead light gives no priority to anybody, so the state hands the intersection back to the stop sign rule.

State law requires a driver at an intersection with an inoperative stop light to stop as though the intersection was controlled by a stop sign.

If you are stopped and your view of a cross street is blocked, edge forward slowly until you can see.

Creeping forward puts your hood where crossing drivers can see it before you can see them, which warns them first.

If you are stopped and your view of a cross street is blocked, edge forward slowly until you can see.

In heavy traffic a driver may not enter an intersection unless there is room on the far side for the vehicle without blocking other vehicles or pedestrians.

A car stranded in the box turns one jam into four. Connecticut calls it blocking the box, and it is prohibited.

During heavy traffic, drivers are prohibited from entering any intersection unless there is sufficient space on the opposite side of the intersection to accommodate their vehicle without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians.

Which of these is an intersection?

A shopping center entrance. A driveway is an intersection. Treating it as one is what stops a car appearing from a parking lot being a surprise. Connecticut Driver's Manual, p.15: “Intersections are any place where traffic merges or crosses.”