No person shall start a vehicle stopped, standing, or parked on a highway, nor shall any person back a vehicle on a highway until such movement can be made with reasonable safety.
Cal. Veh. Code § 22106
Turning and Stopping and Turning Signals
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 1 Cal. App. 3d 1022 - Stockstill v. South Laguna Disposal Co. (1969)
Most recently applied in Ibarra v. Gastelum (July 2020)
Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.