When driving straight you ought to give way to

Explanation

To both drivers — the bus and the passenger car alike.

The inverted red triangle makes your road minor, and the supplementary plate beneath it shows that the priority road comes from the arm opposite — where the bus is standing — and turns to the right, to where the silver car is.

You are going straight, so your path cuts across both arms of the priority road and you must give way to both drivers. This is where most candidates go wrong: because the bus is facing you, the mind treats it as "the oncoming vehicle" and says "I am going straight, and one does not give way to an oncoming vehicle". But that arm is the priority road, and the priority road turns right at this junction; that is, the bus's path passes in front of you.

The main lesson: until you have read the supplementary plate beneath the priority sign, you cannot say which arm is the priority road. In safety terms the rule is logical too: a driver entering from a minor road has less view of the main flow and a lower speed, so the burden of decision and of stopping rests on him. Reduce your speed to the point where you can stop completely before the junction line.

• The passenger car takes precedence, but this option sets the bus aside; the bus is also on the priority road and its path passes in front of you. • "Neither" does not go together with the "give way" sign; that sign means your road is minor and you must give way to the priority-road flow.

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