Will B Good 11833 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 You are at a junction, the lights are RED, but you are permitted to turn left against the red light (not sure why other countries don't do this). The oncoming traffic has a GREEN light and there are cars turning right (their right that is)........who has right of way? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gamb00ler 1241 Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 Those cars with the GREEN light should. I believe the deference to those cars is written into the corresponding traffic rules in the US/Can and a better than average chance it is here as well. 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kwasaki 18768 Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 If your at red lights but allowed to do a left turn and traffic is allowed to come from your right they in right of way. If someone is going very slow in coming the right dive in by all means. 😂 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post stevenl 32249 Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 The green light has right of way. You can only turn at red when safe, with others approaching it clearly is not safe. 9 1 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post blackshadow 693 Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 (edited) vehicles from the right have right of way....one must only turn left if it is safe to do so..... Edited December 5, 2022 by metisdead 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scubascuba3 22132 Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 I treat the ones with the green light with right of way, I'll filter out ASAP 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nigelforbes 3177 Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 The bigger vehicle has the right of way, everywhere, every time. 2 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead 10986 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Troll posts and the replies have been removed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
notrub 243 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 In other countries where a left (or right) turn on red is with the proviso that all other traffic at that junction are not also wanting to drive or turn into the space where you intend to go. I think when curbside turning on a red is allowed (in any country) it is last on the list of right of way. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lacessit 32153 Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 Whoever is the biggest, this is Thailand. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goat 51 Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 21 minutes ago, Lacessit said: Whoever is the biggest, this is Thailand. So many wrong information here. if you not know why you answer. better listen, not speak always. Correct answer is up to the sign. very dangerous the people who can not read. should not drive in thialnd IMO. Killer. If the sign say "turn left when SAFE", can go IF car not coming. IF car coming you MUST stop. or Some sign say NEVER can go. Must wait for the signal. ALWAYS. Please drive safety. 4 3 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bluemoon58 504 Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 2 hours ago, Will B Good said: who has right of way? I have to say Will, this made me really chuckle. This is Thailand, the right of way is to the bravest that muscles their way out first...!!! Even the Police here don't have a clue! 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamb00ler 1241 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 While on my scooter, I assume the cars have the right of way here 🙄 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
prakhonchai nick 3260 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Here in Buriram, when opposing lights both change green together, the usual procedure is that cars that want to turn right expect to go before those going straight on. When I happen to be on "pole position" and am going straight, I invariably force the issue and make the wayward drivers turning right stop and allow me to go first........as is my right. Police are often in attendance, but as one would expect never do anything! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 48749 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Simple - Turn left when ‘safe to do so’... The oncoming traffic, turning to their right has ‘right of way’. *IF signage permits so, turn left when clear. *Not all junctions permit turning left at a red light, some junctions have signs which state ‘left turn on red prohibited’... Not really a big deal - If its clear, just turn left unless there is an obvious sign. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lacessit 32153 Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Goat said: So many wrong information here. if you not know why you answer. better listen, not speak always. Correct answer is up to the sign. very dangerous the people who can not read. should not drive in thialnd IMO. Killer. If the sign say "turn left when SAFE", can go IF car not coming. IF car coming you MUST stop. or Some sign say NEVER can go. Must wait for the signal. ALWAYS. Please drive safety. I have been driving in Thailand for 12 years now, on a scooter and in a car, and have never had an accident. Apart from a very minor shunt which was not my fault. I would say that is reasonable evidence I am doing something right. While I can converse in Thai, I can't read it. Thank you for your concern, sometimes the unwritten road rules are more important than what you have posted. Edited December 5, 2022 by Lacessit 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeptic7 8121 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 USA does this everywhere unless posted NO TURN ON RED (sometimes with times of day included). Of course it's a right a RIGHT turn on red there. The old saying...Turn right on red WITH CAUTION. Either way, the oncoming traffic with the green light has the legal right-of-way. Of course T. I. T., so the bigger vehicle‼️🤣 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dart12 1348 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 2 hours ago, nigelforbes said: The bigger vehicle has the right of way, everywhere, every time. or the junkier. No F's given when driving a turd. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingdongrb 1180 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 32 minutes ago, prakhonchai nick said: Here in Buriram, when opposing lights both change green together, the usual procedure is that cars that want to turn right expect to go before those going straight on. When I happen to be on "pole position" and am going straight, I invariably force the issue and make the wayward drivers turning right stop and allow me to go first........as is my right. Police are often in attendance, but as one would expect never do anything! Exactly the same occurs in some of the Northern towns. (And I do the same as you.) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogradod 909 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, bluemoon58 said: I have to say Will, this made me really chuckle. This is Thailand, the right of way is to the bravest that muscles their way out first...!!! Even the Police here don't have a clue! OK, the most simple question in this regard. Just theoretically (and in case an insurance might be invorved): Is it 1. Right before left or 2. Left before right on a crossing without lights ? My wife has a Thai Driving license - recently made - and she does not know. From the behaviour on the streets the truth cannot be derived as I see it. Actually nobody seems to know for sure or even worse they think they know but this knowledge is not confirmed and acknowleged by others. Thats why they move all so slowly at crossings without lights I suppose. Edited December 5, 2022 by moogradod 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thailand49 4618 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said: Simple - Turn left when ‘safe to do so’... The oncoming traffic, turning to their right has ‘right of way’. *IF signage permits so, turn left when clear. *Not all junctions permit turning left at a red light, some junctions have signs which state ‘left turn on red prohibited’... Not really a big deal - If its clear, just turn left unless there is an obvious sign. correct it is called " stop slow down and proceed with caution " 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussieroaming 6983 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Turn left with care on a red light is the rule.....but that little nugget of information seems to be lost on the muppets here that turn left under that rule. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropposurfer 3940 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 In Australia where a sign indicates, it is permisable to turn left on red light, after stopping, then proceeding to turn left as long traffic from the right through the green is not interfered with. This has been a Traffic Act Law in most States for a decade or more. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soi3eddie 5567 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 If turning left on a red where permitted, the traffic coming from your right on a green has right of way (as written above). Now how about right of way on roundabouts anyone? I'm from the UK and we drive on left same as here in Thailand. We must give way to anyone already on the roundabout (i.e. going round clockwise and from the right). Many, many, times here in Thailand I have been aproaching a roundabout and traffic already on the roundabout - nearly always motorycycles - has stopped whilst going around the roundabout. Seems dangerous to me. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingdongrb 1180 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 1 minute ago, soi3eddie said: If turning left on a red where permitted, the traffic coming from your right on a green has right of way (as written above). Now how about right of way on roundabouts anyone? I'm from the UK and we drive on left same as here in Thailand. We must give way to anyone already on the roundabout (i.e. going round clockwise and from the right). Many, many, times here in Thailand I have been aproaching a roundabout and traffic already on the roundabout - nearly always motorycycles - has stopped whilst going around the roundabout. Seems dangerous to me. The roundabout I drive frequently has a sign (in Thai) saying what you have stated ["We must give way to anyone already on the roundabout (i.e. going round clockwise and from the right)."] ....and just like you, I see many already in the roundabout stopping and giving way to those getting ready to enter the roundabout. That doesn't surprise me as Thais have no idea how to merge. Sadly many drivers in my home country have that same issue with not knowing how to properly merge. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loong 2619 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 I think that the confusion with roundabouts is because there are so few of them in Thailand. At a crossroads with no defined right of way, you must (or should) give way to the left. Many Thais think that this also applies on roundabouts, but it is the opposite, give way to the right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phnom Penh Trader 563 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 10 hours ago, Will B Good said: The oncoming traffic has a GREEN light and there are cars turning right (their right that is)........who has right of way? Are you driving a motorbike or a concrete mixer? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phnom Penh Trader 563 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 9 minutes ago, loong said: I think that the confusion with roundabouts is because there are so few of them in Thailand. At a crossroads with no defined right of way, you must (or should) give way to the left. Many Thais think that this also applies on roundabouts, but it is the opposite, give way to the right. In many parts of Europe you have to give way to traffic entering the roundabout. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli 45828 Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 19 hours ago, Will B Good said: The oncoming traffic has a GREEN light and there are cars turning right (their right that is)........who has right of way? They do as they are moving under a green light and therefore have priority... you are allowed to "slip into the lane" if it is clear to do so. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
seajae 17980 Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 unfortunately in Thailand the law means nothing, the arrogant/uneducated drivers will always force the issue and do as they please ignoring the law completely, while vehicles turning left at a red light should give way many do not. If you are facing a red light you do not have any right of way what so ever over cars with a green light and must always give way to them, same as the idiots that drive straight through stop signs etc, many drivers think the laws do not apply to them or simply do not undestand/know them. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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