The passenger car will drive through the intersection:

Explanation

Second, after the bus.

The yellow diamond "priority road" and the supplementary plate beneath it make the situation clear: the thick line comes from the road the bus is on, enters the junction and turns to the left. That is, the priority road changes direction at this very junction; the bus and the passenger car are both on the priority road, and the blue lorry opposite is on the minor road.

When the priority road turns within a junction, drivers who are on the priority road behave towards one another as at a junction of equal-status roads; that is, by the right-hand rule. The bus is on the passenger car's right, so the car must give way to it and passes second. The lorry, coming from the minor road, moves after both.

The key point to keep in mind: the priority-road sign alone does not guarantee you go first. If the priority road turns and another driver is also on that same priority road, you must still apply the right-hand rule between yourselves. The common trap is that a driver, seeing the yellow diamond, imagines he is absolutely first and enters the junction without looking right — precisely the moment when an angled collision occurs.

• This puts the car first; but the bus is also on the priority road and is on the car's right, so priority is his. • This puts the car after the lorry; the lorry comes from the minor road and must give priority to both vehicles on the priority road.

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