10.9. You, as the driver of a vehicle, when leaving a residential area, must give way to:
UAВи, водій автомобіля, виїжджаючи з житлової зони, повинні дати дорогу:
This exam question from the Traffic Rules of Ukraine tests one of the basic skills of safe driving: how to correctly exit areas where the driver does not have priority and avoid creating danger for others. Such situations most often occur in courtyards and residential complexes, where cars, pedestrians, and sometimes cyclists move nearby at the same time, so knowledge of traffic rules is critically important here for both the theoretical exam and real-life practice.
According to the content of the Traffic Rules, exiting a residential area is equated to exiting from an adjacent territory. This directly follows from clause 26.4 (section 26 "Movement in residential and pedestrian areas") and is confirmed by clause 10.2: before entering the road, the driver is obliged to yield to those already moving along the carriageway or sidewalk that he is crossing. Clause 1.10 also defines "road users" as both drivers of vehicles and pedestrians, so the requirement to "yield to other road users" covers both categories, regardless of whether there is a zebra crossing nearby.
The analysis of the options here is simple: the answer "only to the car" is incorrect because it ignores the obligation to yield to a pedestrian moving along the sidewalk or crossing the exit in the continuation of the sidewalk. The answer "only to the pedestrian" is also wrong, since when joining the flow, the driver must not interfere with vehicles already on the road he is entering. The correct logic for this exam question: when exiting a residential area, you must yield to everyone already moving along the road or sidewalk, that is, both to the car and the pedestrian.
Clause 26.4
When leaving a residential or pedestrian zone, drivers must give way to other road users.
Clause 10.2
When entering the road from a residential zone, yards, parking lots, gas stations, and other adjacent territories, the driver must, before the carriageway or sidewalk, give way to pedestrians and vehicles moving on it, and if there is a bicycle path — also to cyclists.
Brief application: exiting a residential zone is equated to exiting from an adjacent territory, so the driver is obliged to yield both to vehicles on the road and to pedestrians on the sidewalk/carriageway being crossed.
Clause 1.10 (term “Road user”)
Road user — a person who directly participates in the traffic process on the road as a pedestrian, driver, passenger, animal driver, cyclist, as well as a person moving in a wheelchair.
Brief application: both the pedestrian and the car driver are “road users,” thus they fall under the requirement of clause 26.4 to “give way.”
Clause 33.5 — 33 “Road signs,” 5 “Information and guidance signs,” sign 5.35 “End of residential zone”
Indicates the end of the residential zone and cancels the effect of sign 5.34 “Residential zone.”
Brief application: the presence of sign 5.35 means the driver is leaving the residential zone, and the requirement of clause 26.4 applies (as well as clause 10.2 regarding exit from an adjacent territory).
That is, the correct answer is “To the car and the pedestrian,” given that according to the definition of the Traffic Rules, both vehicles and pedestrians are road users to whom the driver must yield when leaving a residential zone.
According to the Rules, exiting a residential area is equated to exiting from an adjacent territory onto a road. Therefore, a driver leaving such an area (specifically at a place marked with the sign "End of residential area") does not have priority over those already moving on the road or sidewalk onto which they are entering.
Clause 10.2 of the Traffic Rules of Ukraine establishes a general requirement: when entering a road from a residential area, yards, parking lots, or other adjacent territories, the driver must yield to pedestrians and vehicles moving on the roadway or sidewalk before entering them. This means you are first obliged to make sure that you do not create an obstacle either for a pedestrian moving along the sidewalk (or crossing the exit in the continuation of the sidewalk), or for a car moving on the roadway of the road you are entering.
In practice, this looks as follows: even if there is no pedestrian crossing (marking), a pedestrian walking along the sidewalk and passing through the exit area has priority, and you must let them pass. At the same time, you must also yield to a car moving on the road, since you are only entering the flow and cannot force other participants to change speed or direction because of your exit.
Thus, the correct answer is "To the car and the pedestrian," because when exiting a residential area according to clause 10.2, the driver is required to yield to both pedestrians on the sidewalk and vehicles on the roadway.