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Wis JI-Civil 1060
Lookout: Backing
[Insert appropriate paragraphs of Wis JI-Civil 1055, Lookout.]
A safety statute provides that the driver of a vehicle shall not back the vehicle unless
the movement can be made with reasonable safety.
To comply with this statute, a driver must, before he or she backs the vehicle, use
ordinary care to keep a careful lookout for the presence and location of other vehicles,
objects, or pedestrians that may be approaching or within the driver’s course of travel. In
addition, the driver must exercise reasonable judgment in calculating the time required to
reach a proper position on the highway (and the distance and speed of any vehicle seen by
the driver to be approaching the driver’s course of travel).
History
Wis JI-Civil 1060 (2008). ©2008, Regents, Univ. of Wis. Prepared by the Wisconsin Civil Jury Instructions Committee of the Wisconsin Judicial Conference with the University of Wisconsin Law School; posted by the Wisconsin State Law Library with the University's permission.
Provenance
- Source
- wilawlibrary.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
c60161a85e979777b32962c6c493cdc08e8c17f4332ac52d3e236547ec2a64ef
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