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Subdivision 1.Impeding traffic; slow speed.
No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law or except when the vehicle is temporarily unable to maintain a greater speed due to a combination of the weight of the vehicle and the grade of the highway.
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Subd. 2.Intersection gridlock; stop or block traffic.
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a driver of a vehicle shall not enter an intersection controlled by a traffic-control signal until the driver is able to move the vehicle immediately, continuously, and completely through the intersection without impeding or blocking the subsequent movement of cross traffic.
(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to movement of a vehicle made:
(1) at the direction of a city-authorized traffic-control agent or a peace officer;
(2) to facilitate passage of an authorized emergency vehicle with its emergency lights activated; or
(3) to make a turn, as permitted under section 169.19, that allows the vehicle to safely leave the intersection.
(c) A violation of this subdivision does not constitute grounds for suspension or revocation of the violator's driver's license.
Notes of Decisions
Wilkes v. Comm'r of Pub. Saf., 777 N.W.2d 239 (Minn. Ct. App. 2010).
· cites it 8× “2001), Officer Schletty had a sufficient legal basis to stop appellant both for impeding traffic under Minn.Stat. § 169.15 (2006) and for failing to keep his vehicle within a single lane under Minn.”
State v. Stallman, 519 N.W.2d 903 (Minn. Ct. App. 1994).
· cites it 4× “20 (1992); see also Minn.Stat. § 169.15 (1992). At oral argument, in response to a question from a member of the panel as to whether "traffic control points" were deliberately set up in front of hospitals and fire stations to ensure emergency vehicles and fire fighting equipment…”
Constans v. Comm'r of Pub. Saf., 835 N.W.2d 518 (Minn. Ct. App. 2013).
· cites it 4× “See Minn.Stat. § 169.15, subd. 1 (prohibiting driving “at such a slow speed as to impede .”
State v. Haataja, 611 N.W.2d 353 (Minn. Ct. App. 2000).
· cites it 2× “Minn.Stat. § 169.15 (1998) provides: No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in com *355 pliance with law or except when the…”
Aanenson v. Engelson, 124 N.W.2d 360 (Minn. 1963).
· cites it 2× “3 Plaintiffs also contend that § 169.15, 4 the slow-speed statute, should not have been read to the jury because it is inapplicable to a turning vehicle which necessarily must slow its speed.”
Howard v. Marchildon, 37 N.W.2d 833 (Minn. 1949).
“We think that § 169.15 (the so-called slow speed statute) so plainly has no application here that there is no occasion to state at length the reasons for such a conclusion.”
Lee v. Smith, 92 N.W.2d 117 (Minn. 1958).
· cites it 2× “37, the so-called overcrowding statute; § 169.15, the slow-speed statute; and § 169.”
Prink v. Tonak, 140 N.W.2d 70 (Minn. 1966).
“No statute prohibits tractors of this type from using state highways, and had the legislature intended the provisions of § 169.15, above quoted, to have this effect, it would have so indicated in clear and definite terms.”
Nash v. Christenson, 62 N.W.2d 800 (Minn. 1954).
· cites it 2× “Section 169.15 reads: “No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.”
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