According to the RA law "On Ensuring Road Safety", is the exit to the road from the adjacent territory considered as an intersection?

Explanation

No, an exit onto the road from an adjacent territory is not considered an intersection.

An intersection is where two roads cross or join. The exit from a yard, a car park, a petrol station or the grounds of a building is not a "road" in the legal sense, so its junction with the street is not an intersection either. This distinction is not accidental: if every yard exit were an intersection, the priority-to-the-right rule would apply there and a driver emerging from a car park could order vehicles on the main street to stop — which would paralyse urban traffic.

Memorise two practical consequences. First, whoever enters the road from an adjacent territory has no priority and must give way to all vehicles and pedestrians; conversely, when you turn from the road into such a territory you must give way to pedestrians and cyclists crossing your path. Second, prohibitions tied to intersections — such as the ban on U-turns, overtaking and stopping within the intersection zone — do not attach to a territory exit. In Yerevan, where the yard exits of residential blocks are usually narrow and full of parked cars, this difference is useful every day.

• An adjacent territory is not deemed a "road"; therefore the exit from it is not a crossing of two roads and consequently not an intersection.

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