VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 10.300
Right-of-Way: Stopping and Yielding Before Entering Highway or Crossing Sidewalk
Immediately before [entering a highway; crossing a sidewalk] from a [private road; driveway;
alley; building], the driver of a vehicle has a duty to stop and use ordinary care to yield the right-of-way to any [approaching vehicle that; pedestrian who] is so near the [intersection; sidewalk] that
the driver cannot safely [enter; cross] it.
If a driver fails to perform this duty, then he is negligent.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
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