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Page 14, Whtby Fr. Press, Wednesday, May 22, 1996 Il ~ ~ k bY JiI Mclntosh The right (of) way MRght of- Way": the dlctionary defines it as the legal right of a pereon or vehicle to pasoini front of another. I define it as one ofthose tiiings Most of us forgot as-soon as we got our driver'. lioenses. Par too many accidents are caused by people who take a right of way they do not deserve; at the same trne, accidents are also the. resuit of people relinqui.hing thie right.-of-way when they should b. taking ItL It causes confusion, and that leads ta accidents. We'v, alsmen it:- Driver A decidles ta be a nice guy; instead of movng forward, h. waves at driver B to go ahead. Driver B knows tiat A bas the right-of-way, and so e waits for hum ta take it. A walts for B, B waxts for A. Then both of them figure that the other isn't moving, . so they both drive ahead, with disastrous resuits. A good driver knows who has the right of way, and then takes IL. In the grocery star. it's mic. ta find someone wholl stand back and let you go ahead; but on the road, Itfs a recipe for disaster. This Ie not te say that w, should ail drive like road warriors and disregard others. But if the other car bas the. right of way, yield ta it, and if you are the car that goes firat, then go. At a four-way stop, the right-of- way goea ta the fet car there; if two or more cars arrive at the sanie âmne, the car ta the left yields ta the, car ta the right. If it's a two- way stop, the car turnlng Must yield ta the, car going straight through, no matter who arrived firat. (Any readers who go west froni Durhami College in the afternoon should re-read that sentence several Urnes; I drive the red truck you're always -cutting in front of at Thickson Road.) When turning left, drivers must trn inta the. left-hand lane; when *right, into the. right-hand lane. Too many drivers tiiese day. cut acroés both lanes, presenting a hazard for vehicles trying ta, turn into thefr own lapes. Drivers on the highway must yield ta faster traffic by staying in the right-hand lane exoept when pasuing. (Ifs. right there in the. driver'. handbook - 'lceep in the. right-hand lane ... it ia an offenoe ta block overtaldng traffic by driving in the, passing lane" - look Drivers. can also present an unnecesay hazrd by stapping ta, allow pedestrigns ta cross the. street in the, middle of the. block. Y.., itfs polit., but it's also th. cause of far to many rear-end collisions. The. rlght-of-way also means staying in one lane. Ail to often, drivers who corne seroa parked car or bicycles in tlieir lane compensat. by pulling iialfway Into the. lane beside them, or on a two-lane road, inta the ian. of oncoming traffic. If the. obstruction le in your lane, itfs your responsibiity tassty in that lane untàif ts safe ta go around it - not ta, force the driver coming at you onta the shoulder ta avoid hitting you head-on. A note ta pedestriane: if you have a "Walk" signai at' the intersection and trafflc ha. stapped for you, please cross the. street, don't get into the "who's first"t game 0f waving the cars througii whule the. drivers wave at you ta crose in front of them. That'sa deadly game. Itfs true that niait of us were taught ta b. courteous, and the. right.of-way isn't always the. polit. way. In the. real world, though, on ims] mails. itathik wi8v fthui Wnrlra INVESTMENT DEALER Doug- Hawkins (night) and Wayne Lovett of the CAW were two of, many volunteers collecting dona- tions for'the Canadian Cancer Society at. GM plant entrances recently. 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