NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 203.31
SIGNAL LIGHTS OTHER THAN AT INTERSECTIONS.
The motor vehicle law provides that: (Select among the following
alternatives as applicable)
[(Red light) when a traffic signal erected or installed at a place
other than an intersection is emitting a steady red light, a vehicle
approaching and facing the red light shall come to a complete stop.1]
[(Flashing red light) when a flashing red light has been erected or
installed at a place other than an intersection, a vehicle approaching and
facing the flashing red light shall stop and yield the right-of-way to
pedestrians or other vehicles.2]
[(Yellow light) when a traffic signal erected or installed at a place
other than an intersection is emitting a steady yellow light, a vehicle
approaching and facing the steady yellow light is thereby warned that a
red light will be immediately forthcoming and that vehicles may not
proceed through that red light.3]
[(Flashing yellow light) when a flashing yellow light has been
erected or installed at a place other than an intersection, a vehicle
approaching and facing the flashing yellow light may proceed with
caution, yielding the right-of-way to pedestrians and other vehicles.4]
[(Green light) when a traffic signal erected or installed at a place
other than an intersection is emitting a steady green light, a vehicle
approaching and facing the green light may proceed subject to the rights
of pedestrians and other vehicles.5]
A violation of [this duty] [one of these duties] is not negligence
within itself. However, a violation of [this duty] [one of these duties]
would be negligence if under the same or similar circumstances a
reasonably careful and prudent person would not have violated [that
duty] [one of those duties].
History
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 203.31 (June 2008). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-158(c)(2), (3), and (4). 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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