Priority from the right on a moped
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No sign, no traffic light, no official? Then the golden rule applies: whoever comes from the right goes first. It applies to you on a moped, for you… and against you. Here's how to apply it without hesitating.
✨ Key takeaways
- With no signs or signals, whoever comes from the right goes first — including you.
- The width or importance of the road changes nothing.
- Exiting a car park, garage or dirt track: you give way to everyone.
- At a roundabout, those already on it have priority.
- Priority or not, never force your way through: on a moped, you're the vulnerable one.
At a junction with no signs or signals at all, you give way to the driver coming from your right — car, motorbike, bicycle or another moped. It doesn't matter if their street is smaller or less busy: the size of the road doesn't count.
And it works the other way round too: when you come from the right, you have priority, even over a lorry. A moped rider is a driver in their own right.
When you lose priority
- A B1 (give way) or B5 (stop) sign applies to you.
- You are coming out of a place not open to public traffic: car park, petrol station, garage, dirt track, path, private property. There, you give way to everyone — even to traffic coming from your left.
- You are approaching a roundabout: those already on the ring go first.
- A traffic light, an authorised official or a sign organises the junction differently.
Priority, yes — kamikaze, no
Having priority never entitles you to force your way through. If the motorist hasn't seen you — which is common, a moped is narrow and inconspicuous — brake and let them pass. In a collision, you're the one who falls, priority or not. Look for the driver's eye contact before moving off: if they haven't looked at you, they haven't seen you.
Junction with no signs at all. A car arrives from your left, nothing on the right. Who goes?