N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 203.28

The motor vehicle law provides that when a main traveled or

through [highway] [street], that is, a dominant [highway] [street], is

designated as such by the erection of a sign, on an intersecting or

servient [highway] [street], notifying the operator of a vehicle to yield

the right-of-way, it is unlawful for the operator on the servient [highway]

[street] to enter or to cross the dominant [highway] [street] without

slowing down and yielding the right-of-way to a vehicle on the dominant

[highway] [street] which is approaching so as to arrive at the intersection

at approximately the same time as the vehicle on the servient [highway]

[street].1

Failure to slow down or yield the right-of-way is not negligence

within itself. However, the failure to slow down or yield the right-of-way

when, under the same or similar circumstances, a reasonably careful and

prudent person would have slowed down or yielded the right-of-way,

would be negligence.