Stop sign?

Question

Tell me, when you stop at a stop sign does the car behind you stop with you & go with you or do they take their turn and stop after you have proceeded?

This is my biggest pet peeve and I just don't get why the car behind me feels if they have the right a way when it's their turn to stop!

Answer 1

they take their turn to stop too.!!

Answer 2

Everyone stops and takes there turn....

Answer 3

A person should stop once the person in front of them goes, but I have been walking, and watched this happen all the time at the nearest stop sign to my house.  I live on a state highway, and there have been many bad accidents from this.  Most of the time people get air-lifted, so they put a permanent + on the road for the heli to land on by that corner.   They will probably have to put a light in.  But most people should have to pass driving school every 2 years......just a thought.

Answer 4

They have to stop after you're gone, when they are on the white line for stopping.

Answer 5

Everyone needs to stop before the STOP sign.  At that point you should inch out for better viewing of the intersection.  If the car behind you gets as for as the STOP sign because you have inched out well past it, then the car has stopped and can go.  There are no rules that say if you stop at the Stop sign and there is a car immediately in fron of you in the intersection you need to stay stopped.  However, if the car behind you does not stop and just follows you they should be ticketed.

Answer 6

You are right, each car is supposed to stop at a stop sign.  It would annoy me, also, if drivers just drove on through after me.  Perhaps they are stopping for only a second, which is pretty common if there is no other traffic.  If there is cross traffic or if there is another car at a four-way stop, every car need to come to a full stop.

Answer 7

Lol. I know it. It's like I didn't know that they hitched on to my back fender.  People are lousy.

I see this all of the time. Of course I would living in the 4th worst drivers state in the U.S. Massachusetts. I hope they get a ticket. They can because by law you are supposed to have all 4 tires stopped at a stop sign.

edit: It's hard not to notice this because they usually tailgate me because I tend to stay around the speed limit. It's because unless you are going to give me a lot of hard cold cash that is real then back off.

edit: Pami: I know what you mean. I see it all the time so I wait to see if they will stop. Jerks. There are a lot of them on the road. My mom almost got sideswiped by a woman that ran a stop sign. She kept going even after my mother saw her and hit the horn. What an idiot. She was driving a Mercedes.

Answer 8

once you go, they have to pull up and stop at the stop sign.

yeah this annoys me too, especially when its not the person behind me, but the person across from me.  I almost got in an accident today because of this.  stupid people.

Answer 9

They are supposed to stop, and look before they go.

Answer 10

hmm...i dont really pay attention to the back of the car when im stopping...although i probably should.

but i stop when im behind a car...

but yeah, ive seen people do it..its really stupid on how they think they can just go without stopping at all..