Stopping rules — District of Columbia Permit Test

Where there is a yield sign and vehicles or pedestrians keep you from using the roadway beyond the sign, you should come to a full stop and proceed when the way is clear.

Rolling into a yield when the road is busy pushes you into someone who has the right to be there.

Where there is a yield sign and vehicles or pedestrians keep you from using the roadway beyond the sign, you should come to a full stop and proceed when the way is clear

When emerging from an alley, driveway, private road or parking structure and driving over a sidewalk onto a street, you must stop and yield to pedestrians, bicyclists and other vehicles before entering the sidewalk or crosswalk.

A person on the sidewalk cannot see a car nosing out of a garage, and walls hide them from the driver too.

When emerging from an alley, driveway, private road or parking structure, and have to drive over a sidewalk onto a street, you must stop and yield to pedestrians, bicyclists and other vehicles prior to entering the sidewalk/crosswalk

Before entering an intersection when the roadway beyond it is blocked with traffic, you should stop and proceed only once it is no longer blocked: don't block the box or the crosswalk.

A car stuck in the box when the light changes blocks cross traffic and the people trying to walk across.

Before entering an intersection when the roadway beyond the intersection is blocked with traffic, you should stop and proceed through the intersection once it is no longer blocked.

At a yield sign, when should you come to a full stop?

When traffic blocks the road ahead. Rolling into a yield when the road is busy pushes you into someone who has the right to be there. DC Driver Manual, p.77: “Where there is a yield sign and vehicles or pedestrians keep you from using the roadway beyond the sign, you should come to a full stop and proceed when the way is clear”