N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 201.31

The operator of a motor vehicle on a highway is required to keep

the vehicle under proper control. This means that the operator is at all

times under a duty to operate the vehicle at a speed and in a manner

which allows the operator to maintain that degree of control over the

vehicle which a reasonably careful and prudent person would have

maintained under the same or similar circumstances. (When the

conditions existing at the scene, such as (describe conditions), obscure

the operator's view or otherwise increase the danger by comparison to

that existing under normal conditions, the care required of the operator is

correspondingly increased.)

A violation of this duty is negligence.

The mere skidding of a vehicle does not, by itself, imply

negligence.2 However, you may consider skidding as some evidence of

negligence when the vehicle skids because:

[the vehicle is operated with worn tires or at an excessive speed]

[the vehicle leaves the paved surface and the operator attempts to

re-enter the road]

[the road is covered with snow, ice or water]3

[(State other condition or situation)]

Such evidence may be considered together with all the other

evidence in determining whether the operator failed to drive at a speed

and in a manner which allowed the operator to maintain that degree of

control over the vehicle which a reasonably careful and prudent person

would have maintained under the same or similar circumstances.