Article 18. Intersections and Obligation to Give Way
1. Every driver approaching an intersection shall exercise such extra care as may
be appropriate to local conditions. Drivers of vehicles shall, in particular, drive
at such a speed as to be able to stop to allow vehicles having the right of way
to pass.
2. Every driver emerging from a path or an earth-track (dirt road) on to a road
other than a path or an earth-track shall give way to vehicles travelling on that
road. For the purposes of this Article the terms “path” and “earth-track” (dirt
road) may be defined in domestic legislation.
3. Every driver emerging on to a road from a property bordering thereon shall give
way to vehicles travelling on that road.
4. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 7 of this Article:
(a) In States where traffic keeps to the right the driver
of a vehicle shall give way, at intersections other than those specified in paragraph
2 of this Article and in
Article 25, paragraphs 2 and 4 of this Convention, to vehicles approaching
from his right;
(b) Contracting Parties or subdivisions thereof in whose
territories traffic keeps to the left shall be free to regulate the right of way
at intersections as they see fit.
5. Even if traffic light signals authorize him to do so, a driver shall not enter
an intersection if the density of traffic is such that he will probably be obliged
to stop on the intersection, thereby obstructing or preventing the passage of cross
traffic.
6. A driver who has entered an intersection where traffic is regulated by traffic
light signals may clear the intersection without waiting for the way to be opened
in the direction in which he wishes to proceed, provided that this does not impede
the progress of other road-users moving in the open direction.
7. Drivers of vehicles not moving on rails shall give way to rail-borne vehicles.
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