DKT- No lights, signs or lines at a crossroad: give way to any vehicle on your right.
- Turning right: also give way to oncoming vehicles going straight or turning left (except those on a slip lane).
- T-intersection: the road that ends gives way to the continuing road.
- The same rules apply if traffic lights are out or flashing yellow.
Crossroads with no control
If there are no lights, signs or lines at an intersection (and it is not a T-intersection or a roundabout), give way to any vehicle on your right. In the handbook diagrams the red vehicle gives way to the green one.
Turning right
At an uncontrolled intersection, a driver turning right gives way to vehicles on their right and to oncoming vehicles that are going straight ahead or turning left, apart from oncoming vehicles using a slip lane.
T-intersections
A T-intersection is where two roads meet and one of them ends. The rule is always the same: when you enter the continuing road from the road that ends, give way to vehicles on the continuing road. This includes vehicles turning right from the continuing road. If you are turning right from the continuing road into the road that ends, give way to oncoming vehicles and pedestrians.
Divided roads
- A Stop or Give Way sign on a road divided by a median strip applies to the whole intersection.
- When turning from a divided road, obey the signs on the road you are turning from (a Stop Here On Red Signal sign means wait for green).
- If there is no sign, give way to traffic when you enter a road through a break in the median strip.
Other times you give way
- Driveway or adjacent land: give way to all vehicles and pedestrians, including those on the footpath, path or nature strip, and bicycles on them.
- Pulling out from a parked position or through a median break: give way to all vehicles on the road.
- Changing lanes, including at a broken line where a lane ends (such as merging into freeway traffic): give way to vehicles already in the lane.
- Zip merging: where two rows must become one and there are no lines marked, give way to any vehicle with any part of it ahead of yours. If you cross any marked line, you are changing lanes, not zip merging.
- U-turns: give way to all vehicles and pedestrians.
See also Stop and Give Way signs, roundabouts and pedestrians.
Based on the Victorian Road to Solo Driving handbook and the VicRoads learner and probationary pages. Rules change from time to time, so check vicroads.vic.gov.au for the latest.
Quick answers
Who has right of way at an intersection with no signs in Victoria?
You give way to any vehicle on your right. If you are turning right, you also give way to oncoming vehicles going straight or turning left.
Who gives way at a T-intersection in Victoria?
The driver on the road that ends gives way to vehicles on the continuing road.
What is zip merging?
When two lanes become one and there are no lane markings, you give way to any vehicle that has any part of it ahead of yours.