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Cars and pedestrians are suppose to meet in only two kinds of situations, uncontrolled intersections and controlled intersections. First, an uncontrolled intersection is any intersection where there is no traffic light or sign of any sort stating what the driver should do. An example of this type of intersection would be where a private driveway meets a city street. Other examples could be where you turn to go into a convenience store or you turn into a friend's driveway. In these situations there are no stop signs, traffic lights, or yield signs to help you. However, there are rules for uncontrolled intersections. If a pedestrian is in the crosswalk, then the pedestrian has the right-of-way at that intersection. The next most critical rule, is that if you are turning left from any major road into a driveway or turning left onto any major road from a driveway then you must yield. Extra caution should really be exercised here, because if anything goes wrong the collision will be ruled your fault. Pay up.
If you are turning right then follow the normal procedures for turning right. These procedures are going to be signal (at least 100 feet before the turn), and then slow your car to about 10 mph so as to minimize your effect on cars behind you, and then make the turn. Controlled intersections are pretty obvious now that we know the definition for uncontrolled intersections. Controlled intersections will be all of those intersections that have traffic signals or signs telling the driver what to do. Traffic signals give the best example of a controlled intersection because they tell the driver exactly what to do. Stop signs create the other common example of controlled intersections. Stop signs can give the right of way to one street like at a 2-way stop intersection or they can cause everyone to stop and look like at a 4-way stop intersection. So how does the collision free driver handle this part of driving? He looks down the road, identifies what kind of intersection he is approaching and then determines who yields or who has the right of way. When pedestrians are at the intersection, determining who yields can be made even more complicated. Whether there are pedestrian walk signals or not at a controlled intersection the collision free driver gives the right of way to the pedestrian.