Sentences with phrase «where oncoming drivers»

Provided there is no traffic coming or you are at a four - way stop where oncoming drivers are required to stop and wait for you, you are free to turn left.

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With the new - for - 2016 XC90 seven - seater crossover suv, there's the usual array of active safety features on offer — like forward collision warning with automatic braking and blind spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert — but there's also a function where it will hit the brakes if the driver tries to steer into the path of an oncoming vehicle (at an intersection, for example).

The Rear Cross Path function issues the same alerts when backing out of a parking space; this feature is intended to help drivers back out of parking spaces where their view of oncoming vehicles may be blocked.

The new tech includes a Virtual Cockpit with a display screen taking the place of the traditional instrument cluster, plus many safety features including one that prevents a driver turning left into oncoming traffic, which could be a life - saver at a busy intersection where visibility is restricted.

The integrated Rear Cross Path (RCP) function aids the driver when backing out of parking spaces where vision of oncoming vehicles may be impaired or blocked.

Common examples include situations where a driver veers into oncoming traffic or goes the wrong direction on a one - way street.

This type of crash is quite common at intersections where one driver is lawfully stopped at a light and another one barrels into the first from behind, knocking him or her into oncoming traffic.

In this regard, Mr. Johnson cites Feng v. Graham [1988] 5 W.W.R. 137 (B.C.C.A.), (not a left turn case), for the principle that the plaintiff's entitlement to assume that other traffic will obey the law, is «subject to the proviso» (in counsel's phrase) that where it is apparent or should be apparent that an oncoming driver is not going to yield the right - of - way, then at that point the other driver must act reasonably and can not simply proceed into the collision, as it were.

Side impact crashes often occur in intersections, where drivers must take great care to follow road regulations, respect others» right - of - way, and stay out of the path of oncoming vehicles.

Black ice is a common problem; when the ice on the road is dark colored and hardly visible to oncoming drivers, usually in areas where the wind is strongest across the roadway, presenting a dangerous slick spot when the drivers least expect it.