The driver of a vehicle within an intersection intending to turn to the left shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction which is within the intersection or so close thereto as to constitute an immediate hazard. However, said driver, having so yielded and having given a signal when and as required by Article 15, may make such left turn and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching the intersection from said opposite direction shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle making the left turn.
Miss. Code Ann. § 63-3-803
Vehicle turning left at intersection
Known as the Uniform Highway Traffic Regulation Law
The act spans §§ 63–63 (250 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Bunch v. Walter (1982)
Most recently applied in Denham v. Holmes ex rel. Holmes (April 2011)
Codes, 1942, § 8196; Laws, 1938, ch. 200.
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Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.