N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 205.90

The motor vehicle law provides that the operator of a vehicle shall

not back the vehicle unless that movement can be made with safety and

without interfering with other traffic.

An operator backing a vehicle must use that degree of care which a

reasonably careful and prudent person would use under all the

circumstances then existing. It is the duty of the operator not merely to

look, but to keep a reasonably careful lookout in the direction in which his

vehicle is moving. The operator is held to the duty of seeing what ought

to be seen, of seeing whether the movement of [a pedestrian] [another

vehicle] is likely to be affected by the backward movement of the vehicle,

and of giving timely warning of the intention to back up when the

circumstances would indicate to a reasonably careful and prudent person

that such a warning should be given.

The mere backing of a vehicle upon a [highway] [street] [public

vehicular area] is not negligence within itself, 1 but the evidence with

regard to it and the manner in which it was done is to be considered with

all the other facts in evidence in determining whether the operator of

such vehicle was negligent in backing the vehicle or in the manner of

backing the vehicle.2