Plano Failure to Yield Accident Lawyer

What Constitutes the Right-of-Way in Plano?

The right of way is determined by the rules of the road, a colloquial term for the numerous statutes contained in the Texas Transportation Code dictating rules and regulations for the safe operation of motor vehicles across the state.  The most common rule to understand as a driver is that if you are driving forward in your own lane of traffic, then you have the right-of-way in that lane, subject to any traffic control signs that might otherwise direct you to speed up, slow down, or come to a complete stop.

It is in the situations where there is no traffic control device and a driver is making a left-hand turn that they must continue yielding the right-of-way to the lanes of oncoming traffic that they are attempting to cross. When a driver does not do this, a failure to yield accident can take place.  In other instances, a traffic control device called a “Yield” sign might direct motorists to yield the right-of-way to other drivers, and failing to heed these signs would be another example of a failure to yield accident.