The Boulevard rule provides that at an uncontrolled intersection
traffic on a minor road must give way to traffic on the main road. For
example, if you are on a four lane highway and it crosses a small
residential road, the vehicle on the small residential road must give
way, even if it is on the right.
     Virginia lacks the boulevard rule, thus legally, the traffic on the
highway must give way to the car to its right on the small residential
road.

 WARNING- for your own personal safety, always drive as if Virginia does
have a boulevard rule. Everyone who lives here assumes Virginia does,
and drives accordingly.

 Virginia law permits passing on the right on a road with only one lane
going your direction, if it can be done safely and the road is wide
enough for you to do so without exiting the normal travel surface of the
road.  It is my understanding, perhaps wrong, that this is illegal in
many states.

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