NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 203.20
STOP SIGN VIOLATION-DUTY OF DRIVER ON DOMINANT HIGHWAY.
The operator of a vehicle on a main-traveled or through [highway]
[street], that is, a dominant [highway] [street], is entitled to assume
that the operator of a vehicle on an intersecting or servient [highway]
[street] will stop or reduce his speed and yield the right-of-way.1
However, this does not relieve the operator on the dominant [highway]
[street] from the duty to exercise that degree of care which a reasonably
careful and prudent person would exercise under the same or similar
circumstances. This means that the operator on the dominant [highway]
[street] must (1) drive at a speed no greater than is reasonable and
prudent under the circumstances; (2) keep the vehicle under proper
control; (3) keep a reasonably careful lookout; and (4) take such other
action as a reasonably careful and prudent person would take to avoid
collision with persons or vehicles upon the [highway] [street].
Failure by the operator of the vehicle on the dominant [highway]
[street], in one or more of these respects, to exercise that degree of care
which a reasonably careful and prudent person would exercise under the
same or similar circumstances would be negligence.2
History
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 203.20 (June 1989). 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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- 2026-09-24
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