NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 203.15
STOP SIGN VIOLATION-DUTY OF OPERATOR ENTERING INTERSECTION FROM STOPPED POSITION.
The motor vehicle law provides that it is unlawful for the operator
of a motor vehicle, when starting from a stopped position and entering an
intersection, to fail to yield the right-of-way to vehicles traveling on the
designated main-traveled or through [highway] [street].1
Failure to yield the right-of-way is not negligence within itself.
However, the failure to yield the right-of-way when, under the same
or similar circumstances, a reasonably careful and prudent person would
have yielded the right-of-way, would be negligence.
History
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 203.15 (June 1989). 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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