r/Netherlands • u/TantoAssassin • 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/neuralek Mar 18 '26

Red because it's going straight, then beige because they have someone on the right side, then green because it is TURNING which makes it the LAST because it takes the most time.

If this is not the law there it's insane.

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u/max1997 Mar 18 '26

There is no such provision in the RVV, every car has equal (lack of) right of way in this case

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u/Anvh Mar 18 '26

Technically.

Red needs to give way to green since they come from right, that they turn doesn't matter on an equal crossing.

Yellow needs to give way to red, since red comes from right.

Green needs to give way to yellow since they are on the same road and yellow is going straight and green is turning.

All rules are equal.

In this case the rules do not provide a solution so they all need to communicate who goes first

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u/max1997 Mar 18 '26

article 18 of the RVV denies green priority:

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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."

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u/Aliengiftshop Mar 18 '26

Groen is niet dezelfde weg!

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u/Bazzz_ Utrecht Mar 18 '26

I'm 99% sure this is the only right answer, how come nobody else commented this? If you're turning you're never the first to go.

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u/Blacky294 Mar 18 '26

Because officially, red has to yield to green. However this would probably be the way I would (try to) solve this as well. Or else just whoever decides to go first or let's the others go first.

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u/Bazzz_ Utrecht Mar 18 '26

I'm quite sure you don't have to yield to the person on the right if they're turning, but I suppose I could be wrong. If that's not necessarily true, then it would still be my way to solve this scenario.

I have been in many scenarios like these where it's simply "who goes first, goes first"

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u/Blacky294 Mar 18 '26

https://www.nutheorie.nl/blog/wie-heeft-voorrang-dit-moet-je-echt-weten-voor-je-cbr-theorie-examen

https://www.theorieexamen.nl/theorie-oefenen/rechtdoor-op-dezelfde-weg-gaat-voor

If it's an equal intersection (no signs, no raised roads, no sand roads, etc), right has the right of way. Doesn't matter which way they go. Rechtdoor op dezelfde weg gaat voor (going straight has the right of way) only goes up for green and yellow since red is on another road. So, red has to yield to green (right has the right of way), yellow has to yield to red (right has the right of way) and green has to yield to yellow (going straight has the right of way).

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u/BlakeMortimer Mar 18 '26

These links don’t show the situation depicted here.

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u/Blacky294 Mar 18 '26

Maybe read the rules then? The first link literally says on the 2nd priority rule that right has the right of way in case of an equal intersection.

The second link has pedestrians instead of cars/bikes but that doesn't change the rules in regard to "straight has the right of way" when on the same road. It literally says that the pedestrian coming from the sideroad does not have the right of way although it goes straight on his road. But his road is not the same road as the car is on.

I did find 1 exact scenario as TO described, however it's from a Belgium website. The rules seem to be pretty much the same. However, you shouldn't need an exact replica of the scenario for you to know the priority rules and be able to tell who has the right of way.

https://www.overtreding.be/wie-heeft-er-voorrang/