Pascoe Law Firm
Failure to Yield Car Accident
Principal office located in Friendswood, Texas.
Available to service League City, Webster, Pearland, Galveston, and the surrounding areas within Texas.
Failure to Yield Car Accident
Lawyer For Injuries Related To Failure-To-Yield Car Accidents in Houston, TX
Failing to Yield can cause a major car accident in the Galveston / Houston area. A “failure to yield” car accident is a common occurrence all too often for many Texans. Failure to yield while driving can result in severe injury to other motorists. There are various “failure to yield” offenses, which often lead to serious collisions. These types of accidents are typically caused by careless or negligent driving behavior when a motorist fails to yield to another vehicle that has the right of way.
Experienced Failure to Yield Auto Accident Lawyer
Texas Law Applicable to Failure To Yield Collisions
(a) Preferential right-of-way at an intersection may be indicated by a stop sign or yield sign as authorized in Section 544.003.
(b) Unless directed to proceed by a police officer or official traffic-control device, an operator approaching an intersection on a roadway controlled by a stop sign, after stopping as required by Section 544.010, shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle that has entered the intersection from another highway or that is approaching so closely as to be an immediate hazard to the operator’s movement in or across the intersection.
(c) An operator approaching an intersection on a roadway controlled by a yield sign shall:
(1) slow to a speed that is reasonable under the existing conditions; and
(2) yield the right-of-way to a vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another highway so closely as to be an immediate hazard to the operator’s movement in or across the intersection.
(d) If an operator is required by Subsection (c) to yield and is involved in a collision with a vehicle in an intersection after the operator drove past a yield sign without stopping, the collision is prima facie evidence that the operator failed to yield the right-of-way.
Yielding to Other Vehicles on the Roadway
Pascoe Law Firm
Friendswood, TX 77546
Phone: 713-829-4317
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