The driver of a vehicle within an intersection intending to turn to the left shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching from the opposite direction which are within the intersection or so close thereto as to constitute an immediate hazard. The driver, after having so yielded and having given a signal when and as required by this chapter, may make the left turn after all other vehicles approaching the intersection which constitute an immediate hazard shall have cleared the intersection.
History. Acts 1937, No. 300, § 71; Pope's Dig., § 6729; Acts 1975, No. 626, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-622.
Case Notes
Jury Instructions.
Ordinances.
Proximate Cause.
AMI Civil 3d, 903 incorporates this section. Druckenmiller v. Cluff, 316 Ark. 517, 873 S.W.2d 526 (Ark. 1994).
Sections of city ordinance requiring vehicles approaching intersections to run beyond center of intersection before turning to the left and giving vehicle continuing on street in original direction right-of-way over vehicle approaching in opposite direction turning off was not inadmissible in evidence as in conflict with this section in action for injuries sustained in a collision between automobile making left turn and bus. Shipp v. Missouri Pac. Transp. Co., 197 Ark. 104, 122 S.W.2d 593 (1938).
Where defendant was driving in excess of the speed limit and plaintiff driving in front approached intersection at which he intended to turn left and after giving a proper signal yielded the right-of-way to approaching vehicles before turning left, but the defendant in the following vehicle not being able to stop swerved into the other lane of traffic and struck plaintiff after he had almost completed his left turn, plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence and the negligence of the defendant was the proximate cause of the collision. Dearing v. Ferrell, 165 F. Supp. 508 (W.D. Ark. 1958).