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Title 27 Transportation

Subtitle 4. Motor Vehicular Traffic

Chapter 51 Operation Of Vehicles - Rules Of The Road

Subchapter 5 - Intersections

27-51-501. Vehicles approaching or entering intersection.

(a) The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle which has entered the intersection from a different highway.

(b) When two (2) vehicles enter an intersection from different highways at the same time, the driver of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on the right.

(c) The foregoing rules are modified at through highways and otherwise as stated in this subchapter.

History. Acts 1937, No. 300, § 70; Pope's Dig., § 6728; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-621.


Case Notes



Negligence.

Negligence.

Motorist who approached intersection at from 30 to 35 miles per hour and drove into the intersection in front of a car on his right without slowing speed or attempting to stop was guilty of negligence precluding recovery. Connor v. Coughlin, 192 Ark. 528, 92 S.W.2d 380 (1936).

Cited: Glover v. Dixon, 285 Ark. 140, 688 S.W.2d 930 (1985).

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