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Old 10-18-2024, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Cassieb View Post
You must remain in the lane you are turning from. From your explanation you nearly hit the other car by crossing lanes. It would have been your fault.
When you're taking a left, at a left-turn-arrow signal that is green, from a single lane, into a two-lane strip-mall driveway, AND the right lane of that 2-lane drive has another driveway immediately upon entering that gets you into the parking lot you need to be in...

then you have the absolute right to turn left from that single-lane left turn, to the right lane of the strip-mall driveway, so that you can get to that parking lot.

As long as YOU have the green light, you can do this.