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In reply to the discussion: Without googling...At a four-way stop, if 2 cars reach the intersection simultaneously, [View all]Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,107 posts)5. Do you know the John Prine song The Accident?
This is how I remember you're supposed yield to the right. I do, but since most people don't seem to know, if they hesitate more than a few seconds, I just go. Not lettin' the yield go around and around.
Last night I saw an accident
On the corner of Third and Green
Two cars collided and I got excited
Just being part of that scene
It was Mrs. Tom Walker and her beautiful daughter
Pamela, was driving the car
They got hit by a man in a lite blue sedan
Who had obviously been to a bar
They don't know how lucky they are
They could have run into that tree
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
And raped by a minority
It was a four way stop dilemma
We all arrived the same time
I yielded to the man to the right of me
And he yielded it right back to mine
Well, the yield went around and around and around
Till Pamela finally tried
Just then the man in the light blue sedan
Hit Pamela's passenger side
They don't know how lucky they are
They could have run into that tree
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
And raped by a minority
Pamela hit her head on the mirror
Mrs Walker got a bump on the knee
The man hit himself in the face and said
"Why does this happen to me?"
The neighbors came out
And they gathered about
Saying "Hey! who hit who anyway?"
And the police arrived at a quarter to five
And pronounced all the victims "Okay"
They don't know how lucky they are
They could have run into that tree
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
And raped by a minority
On the corner of Third and Green
Two cars collided and I got excited
Just being part of that scene
It was Mrs. Tom Walker and her beautiful daughter
Pamela, was driving the car
They got hit by a man in a lite blue sedan
Who had obviously been to a bar
They don't know how lucky they are
They could have run into that tree
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
And raped by a minority
It was a four way stop dilemma
We all arrived the same time
I yielded to the man to the right of me
And he yielded it right back to mine
Well, the yield went around and around and around
Till Pamela finally tried
Just then the man in the light blue sedan
Hit Pamela's passenger side
They don't know how lucky they are
They could have run into that tree
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
And raped by a minority
Pamela hit her head on the mirror
Mrs Walker got a bump on the knee
The man hit himself in the face and said
"Why does this happen to me?"
The neighbors came out
And they gathered about
Saying "Hey! who hit who anyway?"
And the police arrived at a quarter to five
And pronounced all the victims "Okay"
They don't know how lucky they are
They could have run into that tree
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
And raped by a minority
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Without googling...At a four-way stop, if 2 cars reach the intersection simultaneously, [View all]
ecstatic
Sep 2017
OP
and since when do people even really stop........oh they'll slow down, but that rolling thing
a kennedy
Sep 2017
#45
Okay - John Prine - definitely not a parody singer, though he writes some funny songs.
GoneOffShore
Sep 2017
#10
Not really. Folksy-rootsy Americana genre. Not everyone's cuppa, but
Dark n Stormy Knight
Sep 2017
#11
Yeah, this is my concern. I guess that is why we are seeing so many traffic circles pop up...
hlthe2b
Sep 2017
#38
See my post. Rarely are cars going parallel (North - South) approaching each other head-on
anneboleyn
Sep 2017
#52
Of course... the issue is head on meeting simultaneously with one wanting to make a left turn
hlthe2b
Sep 2017
#59
In most cases those cars would be in different lanes, so it's a non-issue. Car from North would
anneboleyn
Sep 2017
#49
But you do need a rule for when it is 2 cars arriving from opposite directions
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2017
#60
In the southern hemisphere, of course, it would be car on left with right of way
pangaia
Sep 2017
#27
There's one busy 4-way in our area at which this happens constantly. We just nod/wave
Nay
Sep 2017
#46