NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 202.20A
SPEED RESTRICTIONS-FAILURE TO REDUCE SPEED.
The motor vehicle law provides that the fact that a person is driving
his vehicle at a speed lower than the posted speed limit does not relieve
him of the duty to decrease his speed as may be necessary to avoid
colliding with any [person] [vehicle]2 on (or entering) the highway, and to
avoid injury to any [person] [property].
Thus, even though the speed of (name driver)'s vehicle was lower
than the posted limit set by law, if he failed to decrease speed when,
under the existing circumstances, a reasonably careful and prudent
person would have decreased speed to avoid colliding with any [person]
[vehicle] on (or entering) the highway, and to avoid injury to any [person]
[property], such failure would be negligence.
History
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 202.20A (May 1988). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-141(m). 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.
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- 2026-09-25
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- 2026-09-24
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