No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property.
Cal. Veh. Code § 22350
Generally
Applied in 45 court decisions — leading case 22 Cal. 3d 891 - People v. Lilienthal (1978)
Most recently applied in 222 Cal. Rptr. 3d 534 - People v. Ledesma (August 2017)
Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 252.
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.