Sentences with phrase «immediate hazard»

In simple terms, defensive driving means identifying potential hazards before they become immediate hazards.

Golder's got a more immediate hazard in her crosshairs.

By Land, Air and Sea For most dog owners, street traffic poses the greatest immediate hazard.

The most immediate hazard was to the coastline west of Houston, from intense winds and storm surge.

Although the City's sign replacement policy did not require the sign to be replaced immediately the City acknowledged that its standard practice was to use its best efforts to locate and remediate immediate hazards.

Reporting immediate hazard or structural deficiency to the client schedule and Conduct site kickoff meeting with client representative.

Of all grandparenting scenarios, no one presents more immediate hazards than becoming a grandparent through adoption.

Either way, you both knew or should have known that it needed to be done, and that your failure to take the necessary action created an immediate hazard with the potential to result in serious bodily injury to another.

yields the right - of - way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another highway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard;.

At an intersection, a vehicle that wants to turn left must yield the right - of - way to a vehicle traveling the opposite direction if the approaching vehicle is within the intersection or close enough to be considered an immediate hazard.

After having stopped, the driver shall yield the right - of - way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time the driver is moving across or within the intersection or junction of roadways.

Since she entered the intersection against the traffic light, she created an immediate hazard.

California law also states that «no pedestrian may suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle that is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard.»

Whenever a pedestrian is on a road — at a place other than a marked crosswalk or intersection — he or she «shall yield the right - of - way to all vehicles upon the roadway so near as to constitute an immediate hazard.»

... After stopping, the driver shall yield the right of way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time such driver is moving across or within the intersection or junction or roadways.

I think the problem is that the right - turner would expect the u-turner to be turning left instead of making a u-turn and therefore would not realize there is an «immediate hazard».

When a vehicle is in an intersection and its driver intends to turn left, the driver must yield the right of way to traffic approaching from the opposite direction that is in the intersection or so close as to constitute an immediate hazard, but having yielded and given a signal as required by sections 171 and 172, the driver may turn the vehicle to the left, and traffic approaching the intersection from the opposite direction must yield the right of way to the vehicle making the left turn.

Madam Justice Griffin concluded that «the bicyclist presented an immediate hazard when the BMW began to turn the vehicle to the left.....

[35] An immediate hazard exists if the oncoming vehicle must make a sudden or violent avoiding action to prevent a collision: Aerabi - Boosheri v. Retallick, [1996] B.C.J. No. 143 at para. 8.

The fault of a left turning vehicle for a car accident depends on whether there is any vehicle approaching that constitutes an immediate hazard.

(the driver of the BMW) should have considered (the bicylcist) to be an immediate hazard and should not have proceeded with the turn until (the bicyclist) was safely through the intersection.

Can failure to yield to a vehicle or causing an immediate hazard prevent an injured pedestrian from recovering compensation after an accident?

Pedestrians who jaywalk may pose an «immediate hazard» and put themselves (and others) at risk.

The Vehicle Code also states that pedestrians can not «suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety» into to the path of a motor vehicle and cause «an immediate hazard.»

Or, as California law states, leaving the safety of the curb and entering the path of a car would create an immediate hazard.

If you are prosecuting or defending municipal claims (whether it is a slip and fall, infrastructure, construction or inspection failure) it is critical to understand the difference between a policy decision (to identify and remedy an immediate hazard) and the implementation of that policy at an operational level (not continuing to look for the immediate hazard until it was found).

This was found not to be «best efforts» given that he knew that the base of the sign was an immediate hazard.

Course Curriculum Participants learn how to recognize both potential and immediate hazards, how to avoid collisions in a variety of driving conditions and how to choose safe and legal driving behaviors.

Either way, you both knew or should have known that it needed to be done, and that your failure to take the necessary action created an immediate hazard with the potential to result in serious bodily injury to another.