EMERGING FROM AN ALLEY, DRIVEWAY, OR BUILDING
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Throneberry v. State (2003)
Most recently applied in Danny Eugene Ivie v. State (April 2013)
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff
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.
An operator emerging from an alley, driveway, or building in a business or residence district shall:
(1) stop the vehicle before moving on a sidewalk or the sidewalk area extending across an alley or driveway;
(2) yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian or sidewalk user to avoid collision; and
(3) on entering the roadway, yield the right-of-way to an approaching vehicle.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.