At an intersection, a circular yellow signal is flashing. What does it require?
Correct answer: Proceed only with caution
Flashing yellow means proceed with caution. A flashing red signal, not flashing yellow, requires a stop followed by the stop-sign right-of-way rules.
Source: §544.008(b) ↗
A circular red light is flashing at an intersection. How should you handle it?
Correct answer: Stop, then proceed only when the stop-sign right-of-way rules allow
A flashing red signal requires a complete stop and the yielding rules that apply after a stop sign. It is not an automatic permission to enter after stopping.
Source: §544.008(a) ↗
An ordinary intersection traffic signal is completely dark in every signal head. What should you do?
Correct answer: Stop as though facing a stop sign and enter only when safe
Texas requires a stop at a nonfunctioning intersection signal. This rule has separate exceptions for a freeway entrance ramp signal and a pedestrian hybrid beacon.
Source: §544.007(i) ↗
Your signal turns green while a pedestrian is still lawfully crossing in the adjacent crosswalk. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop and yield to the pedestrian
Green does not override the duty to protect pedestrians or sidewalk users lawfully in the intersection or adjacent crosswalk.
Source: §544.007(b) ↗
You have a green turn arrow, but a vehicle is still lawfully clearing the intersection. What should you do?
Correct answer: Yield to that vehicle while entering cautiously in the arrow’s direction
The arrow permits movement in its direction, but you must still yield to traffic lawfully using the intersection and protect lawful crosswalk users.
Source: §544.007(c) ↗
You face a steady red light and want to turn right. No sign prohibits the turn. What is required first?
Correct answer: Stop, yield, and wait until the turn can be made safely
A permitted right on red is conditional on a complete stop, yielding to lawful users and entering safely. A prohibitory sign removes this permission.
Source: §544.007(d), (f) ↗
After a full stop at a steady red light, which left turn may be permitted if no sign prohibits it and all yielding duties are met?
Correct answer: From a one-way street onto another one-way street
The Texas red-light left-turn provision requires both intersecting streets to be one-way and the left turn to be permissible.
Source: §544.007(d)(2) ↗
A stop sign has a clearly marked stop line before the crosswalk. Where should your vehicle stop?
Correct answer: At the stop line before crossing it
Use the marked stop line. Without one, stop before the near-side crosswalk; if neither exists, stop at the nearest safe viewing point before the intersecting roadway.
Source: §544.010(c) ↗
The lane directly ahead has a red lane-control signal above it. May you enter?
Correct answer: No; do not enter or travel in that lane
A red overhead lane-direction signal prohibits entering or traveling in that lane. An empty-looking lane is not permission to use it.
Source: §544.009 ↗
A steady yellow light replaces the green indication. What does it warn you about?
Correct answer: The green movement is ending and a red indication is coming
Steady yellow warns that the previously authorized green movement is ending. It is not an instruction to accelerate.
Source: §544.007(e) ↗
You want to turn, but a person is crossing your path on a WALK signal. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop and yield before turning across their path
A driver must stop and yield to a pedestrian or sidewalk user proceeding on a WALK signal. A turning movement does not override that crossing right-of-way.
Source: Texas Transportation Code §552.002(b) ↗
A pedestrian began crossing on WALK and is halfway across when DON’T WALK appears. What should a turning driver expect?
Correct answer: The person may finish crossing toward a sidewalk or safety island
A person who started on WALK may continue toward a sidewalk or safety island after the signal changes. Do not turn into their path.
Source: Texas Transportation Code §552.002(c) ↗
