1 Wash. App. 935 - Hurst v. Struthers’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. “There was substantial uncontroverted evidence to support the trial court’s statement that had the plaintiff “looked immediately prior to her making this turn, she would have seen an overtaking vehicle.” The MacDonald car was in the passing lane continuously while passing the three cars which were following the plaintiff. The plaintiff had a clear and unobstructed view of the westbound lane behind her (the passing lane) for a quarter of a mile. The drivers of two of the following cars saw and heard the oncoming MacDonald car prior to the collision. . . . Nothing occurred to confuse, deceive, or distract the plaintiff. . . . Reasonable minds cannot differ on the proposi tion that had the plaintiff looked for possible traffic in the passing lane immediately before she started her left turn across it, she would have seen the oncoming MacDonald car which necessarily was in that lane an appreciable time before the plaintiff started her left turn. . . . Either she looked so long before she began her turn that the look was completely ineffective for the purpose intended, or she did not see what was there to be seen.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 3 Wash. App. 673 - McGlothlin v. Cole

2. “No person shall turn a vehicle . . . from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety. The left-turning driver should be held negligent as a matter of law only when reasonable minds cannot differ on the proposition that had the left-turning driver looked for possible traffic in the passing lane immediately before starting the left turn across it, he would have seen the passing car which necessarily was in that lane before the driver started the left turn. In such situation the left turn could not be made with reasonable safety. . . . When reasonable minds can differ on this proposition, the issue of negligence is for the trier of fact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 17 Wash. App. 853 - Ashcraft v. Wallingford