The first to drive through the intersection:

Explanation

The green car.

The light facing the blue and red cars shows the main red lamp lit, and only the additional section glows with a green arrow pointing right. The green car is crossing the junction from the crossing road on the left with the permission of its own light. So it passes first.

Separate the situation of each of the three vehicles. The blue car is going straight and no permitting signal is lit for its direction; it must stay behind the stop line. The red car has signalled right and the arrow of the additional section permits it to turn, but that permission is conditional: it must give priority both to the traffic coming from other directions — that is, to the green car — and to pedestrians on the crossing of the road it is entering. In the picture, pedestrian crossings are drawn on all four sides of the junction and lie precisely on the red car's turning path.

The safety reason for this order matters: a right turn on an arrow is made quickly and without stopping, and the turning driver's eyes are to the left in order to find a gap; at exactly that moment a pedestrian who has stepped onto the crossing from his right is in his blind spot. That is why a turn on an arrow always begins with "stop, look, then move".

• The red car has only permission to turn right, not priority; it must give way to the green car and to pedestrians, so it cannot be the first vehicle. • The blue car is going straight and its main light is red; the arrow of the additional section is only for the right turn and gives no permission whatever for straight-ahead movement.

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