What the exam asks here: Many learners think: 'I'm turning, so I'm the priority now' — and only watch for cars.
Many learners think: When turning right you signal first and only then check your mirrors and over your shoulder.
The rule is: The order is interior mirror, right door mirror, right shoulder, and only then signal 'once you know you can turn safely'
Many learners think: 'I'm turning, so I'm the priority now' — and only watch for cars. The CBR examiner specifically tests whether you recognise the whole group of straight-ahead traffic: cyclists, moped riders, and pedestrians too, not only motor vehicles.
Fixed order: interior mirror, right door mirror, right shoulder, only then signal, then smoothly move into position (Book p.137). Give way to straight-ahead traffic — including cyclists, moped riders and mopeds on a cycle lane or separate track, and pedestrians.
Before turning right you look in a fixed order: first the interior mirror, then the right door mirror, then over your right shoulder. Only once you know you can turn safely do you signal and move into position in a smooth line (Book p.137). After that you give way to straight-ahead traffic on the same road — not only other cars, but explicitly also cyclists, moped riders and mopeds on a cycle lane or separate track, and of course pedestrians (Book p.137). You take the turn itself short: you end up on the right-hand side of the road you are entering. That is the opposite of the wide turn used for turning left — turning right you don't need to leave room for oncoming traffic, so staying short and close to the edge is exactly the safe line.
A moped rider on the cycle lane to your right is exactly where a turn taken too wide or too fast will hit them — they're going straight while you're turning. Skipping the look order, or assuming turning gives you priority, cuts off exactly the cyclist or pedestrian the book explicitly names as having the right of way.
In Nijmegen you want to turn right. On the cycle lane to your right a moped rider is going straight, and a pedestrian is crossing on the zebra crossing next to it. Who do you give way to?
Explain: what is the fixed look order when turning right, who must you give way to, and how tight or wide is the turn?
Interior mirror → right door mirror → shoulder → signal → short turn to the right-hand side. Priority: straight-ahead traffic + cyclists/moped riders + pedestrians.
You are driving through Nijmegen and want to turn right into a side street. Right before the turn a moped rider is going straight on the cycle lane to your right. In what order do you act, and who goes first?
Fixed order: interior mirror, right door mirror, right shoulder, only then signal, then smoothly move into position (Book p.137). Give way to straight-ahead traffic — including cyclists, moped riders and mopeds on a cycle lane or separate track, and pedestrians.
Correct answer: Interior mirror, right door mirror, right shoulder, then signal
Why learners get this wrong: When turning right you signal first and only then check your mirrors and over your shoulder.
Correct answer: A pedestrian crossing the road you are turning into, going straight across; A cyclist going straight on the cycle lane to your right; A moped rider going straight on that same cycle lane
Why learners get this wrong: When turning right you only need to give way to cyclists on the cycle lane, not other road users.
Correct answer: False
Why learners get this wrong: When turning right you take the turn just as wide as when turning left, to make the corner comfortable.
Correct answer: You give way to the moped rider, even though you have a green light
Why learners get this wrong: If you yourself have priority at the junction (for example a green light), you do not need to give way to straight-ahead cyclists when turning right.
Correct answer: You let the cyclist go first and then take the turn tightly
False — you take the turn as for a left turn. Turning right, you take the turn so tightly that you end up on the right-hand half of the street you enter
Why learners get this wrong: If you yourself have priority at the junction (for example a green light), you do not need to give way to straight-ahead cyclists when turning right.
Correct answer: Right mirror, shoulder check, signal, then turn tightly
False — you take the bend wide, as for a left turn. Turning right, you take the bend so tightly that you end up on the right-hand half of the street you enter
Why learners get this wrong: When turning right you take the turn just as wide as when turning left, to make the corner comfortable.
Correct answer: Both — the moped rider and the pedestrian
The book explicitly names cyclists, moped riders, and pedestrians too
Why learners get this wrong: When turning right you only need to give way to cyclists on the cycle lane, not other road users.
Correct answer: True
The book explicitly names cyclists, moped riders and mopeds on a cycle lane or separate track, and also pedestrians
Why learners get this wrong: When turning right you only need to give way to cyclists on the cycle lane, not other road users.
No. The order is interior mirror, right door mirror, right shoulder, and only then signal 'once you know you can turn safely'
No. The book explicitly names cyclists, moped riders and mopeds on a cycle lane or separate track, and also pedestrians
No. When turning right you take the turn short enough that you land on the right-hand side of the road you enter; a wide turn belongs to turning left, not right
No. The duty to give way to straight-ahead traffic (incl. cyclists/moped riders/pedestrians) when turning is independent of your priority at the junction itself