In this situation, when making a left turn, we are obliged to give way to

Explanation

To the bus driver and the passenger car driver.

The inverted red triangle means "give way"; your road is minor. The supplementary plate beneath it says which arms the priority road passes through: the thick line comes from the arm opposite — where the yellow bus is standing — and turns right, towards the arm on which the silver car stands. Your arm and the left-hand arm are drawn with thin lines.

So the yellow bus and the silver car are both on the priority road and you are obliged to give way to both. But the motorcycle on the left is on a minor road, of equal status with yours; between two equal-status roads priority belongs to the right, and the motorcycle is on your left. That is, it must give way to you, not the reverse.

Worth memorising: the "give way" sign alone does not say whom you must give way to; it is the supplementary plate beneath it that identifies the priority arms. And the exam trap is the option "all the drivers": because the sign has declared your road minor, the mind is tempted to treat everyone as taking precedence and to put the motorcyclist on the list too. A motorcycle is a full vehicle and must be seen, but here it is travelling on the minor left-hand arm.

• "All the drivers" treats the motorcycle as taking precedence too; but the motorcycle is on the minor left-hand arm and under the right-hand rule must give way to you. • The passenger car is on the priority road and you must give way to it, but this option omits the yellow bus; the bus is travelling on that same priority road.

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