Making a left turn onto a divided highway?

When two oncoming cars are each making a left turn onto a 4 LANE DIVIDED HIGHWAY (for example, one is northbound and turning left to go west on the divided highway and the other car is southbound and turning left to go east on the divided highway), should they meet and pass in the median before making their respective left turns or do they simply turn in front of one another? Assume that there is no other traffic behind either car.

Jen

The correct answer would be that the two vehicles pass each other and make the turn. There would be no need for anyone to yield, flash lights, or anything else.
Do not turn in front of another vehicle. This may get you into an accident and take a court to straighten out. In order to turn in front of each other both would have to be on the wrong side of the lane and then have to make a correction to get back into their lanes.
Let's say the vehicle going South is #1 and the vehicle going North is #2. These vehicles would pass each other and commence a turn. Any vehicles following would have to yield stopping vehicles and legal turns.
As vehicle #1 and #2 pass each other and turn they would have to then yield any vehicles that was behind the other.

UCANTCME

Since no one will know what the other will do I would flash my lights and give the other one the right of way but if that does not work then they should pass each other making sure that they have cleared and then make their left turns....

eric

It depends on who gets there first and where each car is turning. Sometimes on busy roads, that can cause congested in the turning lane or median and even a head on collision if nobody is paying attention. I've had a few conflicts with cars in the turning lane before. Like I'm about to get in the turning lane and am about half way in the turning lane (or sometimes fully in the turning lane), then a car from the other direction gets in the turning lane and in my way. If the turn is a little father and I'm not fully in the turning lane, I usually swing back out in the left lane, go passed the car, and then get back in the turning lane in front of where I'm turning. It's important to watch people's turn signals from the other direction before getting in the turning lane and don't get in the turning lane 1/2 mile before your turn.

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