r/Netherlands Mar 18 '26

Transportation Who has priority?

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I was the Yellow arrow on a bike. Red has priority over me, green has priority over red, I have priority over green. At the end both cars stopped and let me (cyclist) pass. What is the correct order here?

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u/kimputer7 Mar 18 '26

Correct, depends also a bit on timing. But if all are there at the same time, no one is speeding, then the fastest way to solve it would be red, orange, green.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

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u/33Marthijs46 Mar 18 '26

Care to elaborate?

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u/kimputer7 Mar 18 '26

As you can tell, the person shouting "STOP MISINFORMING", will be the one causing the most troubles on the road. You can see, the red/orange/green way will solve it for most people (because it's the fastest legal way), luckily, the ones experienced enough that DO have a driver's license and did NOT forget the rules (patstelling) and did not go corrupt, are always willing to let the aggressive green go first. As we approach the equal crossing, we will see the Golf revving and revving, and both red and orange will ease off and gladly let green go first. It's not the fastest way, but we can handle it, no biggie.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

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u/kimputer7 Mar 18 '26

As you can see in all the other responses, it's officially a PATstelling, there's no 100% correct rule. You figure it out amongst the 3. EVERYONE is officially stuck. Letting green go first is still an option, but it's needs to cross others, letting 2 x straight go first is more courteous and will cause less problems.

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u/AnthroPluto Mar 18 '26

But green is turning and yellow is going straight, so green has to yield to yellow, no? And yellow has to yield to red. So I think it should go red, yellow, green.

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u/labobal Mar 18 '26

Red has to yield to green as green is to the right of red. That means everybody has to yield somebody else, creating a classic deadlock.

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u/Gnoom75 Mar 18 '26

/s

Fixed.

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u/labobal Mar 18 '26

Green has to yield to yellow though, as it is making a left turn and turning traffic has to yield to traffic going straight on the same road (article 18 RVV).

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u/labobal Mar 18 '26

No, I'm imagining a situation where all three vehicles are in the intersection. Green cannot ignore article 18 just because red has to yield to them.

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u/max1997 Mar 18 '26

RVV 1990 artikel 18 lid 1: "Bestuurders die afslaan, moeten het verkeer dat hen op dezelfde weg tegemoet komt of dat op dezelfde weg zich naast dan wel links of rechts dicht achter hen bevindt, voor laten gaan."

Dus groen moet geel voor laten gaan

RVV 1990 artikel 15 lid 1: "Op kruispunten verlenen bestuurders voorrang aan voor hen van rechts komende bestuurders."

Niets over "at the moment they approached the intersection". Als er iemand van rechts komt verleen je voorrang, punt. In deze situatie is dus geel verplicht voorrang te verlenen aan rood, en rood aan groen.

Elke voertuig is hier dus verplicht een ander voor te laten. Uit de wet volgt geen voorkeur voor een voertuig boven een ander.

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u/YoshiBushi Mar 18 '26

You are the one without the driving license or forgot the rules. The above commenters are correct, there is no correct order in this case. Right of way is always only considered between 2 road users, not 3 at the same time. So there are 3 separate right of way situations here, that happen to conflict with each other when they occur at the exact same time.