NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 213.10
RACING AND SPEED COMPETITION.
The motor vehicle law provides that it is unlawful to operate1 a
motor vehicle on a [street] [highway] willfully in speed competition with
another vehicle. Racing is speed competition between motor vehicles.
Engaging in such speed competition, whether prearranged or not, is
negligence within itself.2
(All persons who willfully participate in such speed competition are
jointly and concurrently negligent. If injury to one not involved in the
competition proximately results from it, all participants are liable,
regardless of which of their vehicles actually inflicts the injury.)
(If a participant abandons the competition, to the knowledge of the
other participants, before the accident and injury, the mere fact that he
earlier participated in the competition does not make him liable for
injuries thereafter caused by the other participants.)3
History
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 213.10 (May 1988). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-141.3(a). 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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