Wis JI-Civil 1325A

A safety statute provides that the driver of a vehicle must come to a full and complete

stop before entering an intersection at which has been erected an official stop sign

designating an artery for through traffic. (Highway) (Street), on which (name) was traveling

at the time and place in question, was an arterial highway, and there was erected at the proper

place on an arterial stop sign, requiring drivers on that to stop. The statute further

provides that:

[Select one or more of the following items to complete this paragraph.]

(a) If there is a clearly marked stop line, as there was at the stop line here, the

driver must stop before crossing such line.

(b) If there is no clearly marked stop line, which was the situation here, the driver

shall, if there is a crosswalk, as there was here, stop before entering the

crosswalk.

(c) If there is neither a crosswalk nor a stop line at the intersection, which was the

situation here, the driver, before entering the intersection, shall stop the vehicle

at a point from which the driver can efficiently observe traffic on the

intersecting roadway.

[I have previously defined for you the meaning of the word

intersection.]

["Intersection" means the area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral

boundary lines of two or more highways which join one another at an angle, whether or not

one highway crosses the other.]

A "highway" is defined by statute as being every way or place, of whatever nature,

open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular travel.

It is not sufficient that a driver before entering an arterial highway at which there is a

(crosswalk) (marked stop line) stop at the (crosswalk) (marked stop line) only. If the driver

cannot efficiently observe traffic on the arterial highway from that point, the driver must stop

again, before entering the highway, at a point where the driver can efficiently observe traffic

approaching on the arterial highway.