Right of way at intersections — Minnesota Permit Test
Right of way at intersections on the Minnesota permit test — 6 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
At an intersection with no lights or signals, a driver reaching it at the same time as another must yield to the driver on the right.
Somebody has to go first, and the rule picks the same one every time so both drivers know.
When you reach an intersection at the same time as another driver, the driver on the left must yield to the one on the right.
At an all-way stop or a flashing red light, the driver on the left yields to the driver on the right when they arrive together.
It is the same rule as an uncontrolled intersection, which is why a flashing red is treated like a stop sign.
All-way stops or flashing red traffic lights: When you reach an intersection at the same time as another driver, the driver on the left must yield to the one on the right.
A driver turning left must yield to oncoming vehicles in the intersection or close enough to be a risk.
The turn crosses their path, so the whole movement depends on being sure there is room.
When you want to make a left turn, you must yield to vehicles approaching from the opposite direction that are in the intersection or close enough to pose a risk of a crash.
On a green arrow for a left turn you must still yield to vehicles or pedestrians already in the intersection.
The arrow protects you from what has not arrived yet, not from what is already there.
When a green arrow signals that you are allowed to turn left, you must yield to other vehicles or pedestrians already in the intersection.
Turning at an uncontrolled T intersection, you must yield to all cross traffic.
Your road ends there. The road you are joining was never asked to stop.
When you approach an uncontrolled “T” intersection, you must yield to all cross traffic if you are the one turning.
Entering a public road from a private road or driveway, you must stop and yield to pedestrians and traffic.
The traffic on the road has no reason to expect a car coming out of a driveway.
Entering a public road from a private road or driveway: You must stop and yield to pedestrians and traffic.
On the test
Who yields at an uncontrolled intersection when two drivers arrive together?
The driver on the left yields. Somebody has to go first, and the rule picks the same one every time so both drivers know. Minnesota Driver’s Manual, p.43: “When you reach an intersection at the same time as another driver, the driver on the left must yield to the one on the right.”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.
Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Minnesota Driver’s Manual, published by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-22.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MN.pdf (Minnesota Driver’s Manual, May 2025, Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Driver and Vehicle Services, retrieved 2026-09-14; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MN.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json, MN entry -- the folio offset of 3 and its basis, the folio marker, the extraction-flag score and the welded compounds it costs, and the record of where the exam shape comes from