NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 201.20
REASONABLE LOOKOUT.
With respect to the [plaintiff's] [defendant's] (state number)
contention, the operator of a motor vehicle on a highway has a duty to
keep a reasonable lookout. This means that the operator is charged with
the duty at all times to keep the same lookout that a reasonably careful
and prudent person would keep under all the circumstances then existing.
The duty is not only to look, but to see what ought to be seen. The
operator must be reasonably vigilant and anticipate the use of the
highway by others.
A violation of this duty is negligence.
History
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 201.20 (June 1993). Prepared by the North Carolina Conference of Superior Court Judges' Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, assisted by the UNC School of Government; published by the School of Government.
Provenance
- Source
- sog.unc.edu
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
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