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Priority and giving way

Compare the signs and the directions shown by their arrows.

Learn the signs

B11 Ubetinget vigepligt

What it means: Give way to traffic on the road you are entering or crossing. Stop when necessary.
Your action: Slow down, look for traffic from both directions and give way before entering or crossing. Stop if necessary.
Common mistake: Yield does not always require a complete stop; it always requires giving way.

B13 Stop

What it means: For a car driver, STOP means a complete stop and giving way before proceeding.
Your action: Come to a complete stop at the stop line, then check and give way before proceeding.
Common mistake: An empty-looking road does not remove your duty to stop.

B15 Sammenfletning

Your action: Adjust speed and spacing with other traffic so the streams can merge safely.
Common mistake: Do not treat every ordinary lane change as a signed merge.

B16 Hovedvej

Your action: Keep watching side roads. Read any further priority signs or markings on your own road.
Common mistake: Priority is not permission to ignore a danger or a later STOP or yield sign.

B17 Hovedvej ophører

Your action: Check the priority rules and markings at the next junction instead of assuming the priority road continues.
Common mistake: This sign alone does not say that every vehicle ahead has priority over you.

B18 Hold tilbage for modkørende

What it means: Give way to oncoming traffic at the narrow section. Do not enter if you would force it to stop.
Your action: Enter the narrow section only when you can pass without making oncoming traffic stop. Wait if needed.
Common mistake: The red arrow represents your direction; its size does not give you priority.

B19 Modkørende færdsel skal holde tilbage

Your action: You have priority over oncoming traffic, but wait rather than create a conflict with a vehicle already in the narrow section.
Common mistake: Having priority does not make an occupied or unsafe passage clear.

Look at the exact symbol first, then read the difference.

Both require giving way. STOP additionally requires a complete stop; yield requires stopping when necessary.

B18: you must hold back for oncoming traffic. B19: oncoming traffic must hold back for you. Avoid a conflict even when you have priority.

Answer without looking back. Your first check is kept as your result. This is practice, not an official exam.

Sources and review date

Reviewed: 2026-10-17. Study explanations are our wording; use official rules and your instructor’s guidance.