New Jersey Basic Auto Learner Permit Practice Test
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Late at night, you have made a complete stop at a traffic signal that is flashing red for your direction. The cross street has a flashing yellow signal, and a car on that street is close to the intersection. What should you do next?
At night, A has stopped under a flashing red signal. B is close on the cross street under flashing yellow; labeled signal details identify the two indications.
Correct answer: Let the car cross first, then go when no other vehicle is close enough to be a hazard.
Why
Treat a flashing red signal like a stop sign: stop completely, look left and right for vehicles and pedestrians, and go only when it is safe. You yield to a car on the cross street that is close enough to be a hazard; when no vehicle is that close, you may go. At a railroad crossing, flashing red lights have a different meaning: a train is coming, and you must wait until the lights stop flashing and all other warnings end.
Verified against New Jersey Driver Manual · Traffic Signals · p. 214
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