N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 104.30

Ordinarily a person has no duty to anticipate negligence on the part

of others. In the absence of anything which gives or should give notice

to the contrary, he has the right to assume and to act on the assumption

that others will observe the rules of the road and obey the law.

However, the right to rely on this assumption is not absolute,2 and

if the circumstances existing at the time are such as reasonably to put a

person on notice that he cannot rely on the assumption, he is under a

duty to exercise that care which a reasonably careful and prudent person

would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.3