Road Rules Guide · New South Wales

T-intersections: New South Wales road rules

Key points on t-intersections for the New South Wales learner test. Each answer is checked against the official New South Wales handbook or road rules; use the practice-question links to test yourself.

You are driving on a road that ends at a T-intersection with no signs. Who must you give way to?

Answer: All vehicles on the road that continues across the top of the T

At a T-intersection with no signs, drivers on the terminating road (the stem of the T) must give way to vehicles travelling on the continuing road.

Practice question 140 · official source

At a T-intersection with no signs, you are on the continuing road turning right into the side road. An oncoming car goes straight on. Who gives way?

Answer: You must give way, because you are turning right across it

A driver turning right from the continuing road into the terminating road must give way to oncoming vehicles travelling through the intersection or turning left.

Practice question 141 · official source

Your road ends at a T-intersection with no signs and you are turning right. Who must you give way to?

Answer: Vehicles from both directions on the road you are joining

At the end of a T-intersection you give way to all vehicles on the continuing road, whether they are turning or not.

Practice question 142 · official source

At the T-intersection shown, which vehicle must give way?

Illustration for: At the T-intersection shown, which vehicle must give way?

Answer: Vehicle R

The vehicle on the road that ends (R) must give way to vehicles on the continuing road (Q).

Practice question 143 · official source