O.C.G.A.
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
Whenever a highway or roadway has a central lane in which traffic may enter from either direction for the purposes of making a left turn, no vehicle shall be driven into such central lane except for the purpose of making a left turn, and no vehicle shall enter into such central lane at a location which is more than 300 feet from the location where the vehicle will turn left across one or more lanes of oncoming traffic. No vehicle which has been driven into such a central lane shall be operated in such central lane for more than 300 feet.
History
(Code 1981, § 40-6-126, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 866, § 1.)
Annotations
Cross references. - Driving on roadways laned for traffic, § 40-6-48. JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Driscoll v. Walters, 267 Ga. App. 688, 600 S.E.2d 744 (2004).
ARTICLE 7 NEGOTIATING RAILROAD CROSSINGS, ENTERING HIGHWAYS FROM PRIVATE DRIVEWAYS Cross references. - Regulation of railroad grade crossings, § 32-6-190 et seq.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
2
cases, 2004–2015 · leading case:
Davis v. the State, 769 S.E.2d 183 (Ga. Ct. App. 2015).
Davis v. the State, 769 S.E.2d 183 (Ga. Ct. App. 2015).
· cites it 2× “4 OCGA § 40-6-126. 5 (Citations omitted.) State v.”
Driscoll v. Walters, 600 S.E.2d 744 (Ga. Ct. App. 2004).
· cites it 2× “Evidence submitted during trial showed that Driscoll may or may not have entered the center lane more than 300 feet from the location where he *689 would have turned in violation of OCGA§ 40-6-126. 1 Driscoll testified that he was going 20-25 mph at the time of the accident.”
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