NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 203.10
STOP SIGN VIOLATION.
The motor vehicle law provides that when a stop sign has been
erected or installed at an intersection, the driver of a vehicle approaching
the intersection and facing the stop sign shall stop in obedience to that
stop sign and shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle being operated
on the designated main traveled or through highway.1
Failure to come to a complete stop and yield the right-of-way is not
negligence within itself. However, the failure to come to a complete stop
and yield the right-of-way when, under the same or similar circumstances,
a reasonably careful and prudent person would have stopped and yielded
the right-of-way, would be negligence.
History
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 203.10 (May 2006). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-158(b)(1). 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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