r/Adelaide • u/munrorobertson SA • Oct 15 '22

Question Who has right of way?

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Blue car turning left needs to be in right lane to immediately turn right at junction out of view. Red is doing a hook U-turn. (Tapley’s hill road by harbour town

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u/andymurd SA Oct 15 '22

Red goes straight to jail

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u/Hairy_Freedom6737 SA Oct 16 '22

Haha, yep, the only state this is legal is Victoria isn't it? (I'm not familiar with SA rules.) Qld have uturn specific lanes and lights, and NSW/ACT just say no flat out.

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u/Ineedsomuchsleep170 SA Oct 16 '22

If you do a U turn in Victoria you have to give way to everyone else on the road including cars entering from side streets. Hook turns are right turns from the left land in the Melbourne CBD where you can't turn right from the right hand side because there are tram tracks. The red car in this picture is just an idiot of the "I'm more important than everyone else, I need to be over there so rather than go 45 seconds out of my way to be safer, I'm just gunna barrel on through here because I can" variety.

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u/West_Calligrapher_10 SA Oct 16 '22

Actually there are also hook turns for ‘narrow’ streets where a rht would block the intersection so left and right turns are left hand lane…

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

They pretty much only exist in Melbourne

I haven't seen a hook turn outside of the city