No person shall turn a vehicle from a direct course upon a highway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety and then only after giving a clearly audible signal by sounding the horn if any pedestrian may be affected by such movement or after giving an appropriate signal in the manner provided in this article in the event any other vehicle may be affected by such movement.
A signal of intention to turn right or left shall be given continuously for a reasonable distance before turning.
No person shall stop or suddenly decrease the speed of a vehicle without first giving an appropriate signal in the manner provided in this article to the driver of any vehicle immediately to the rear when there is opportunity to give such signal.
Codes, 1942, § 8192; Laws, 1938, ch. 200.
Notes of Decisions
Tracy Woods v. State of Mississippi, 175 So. 3d 579 (Miss. Ct. App. 2015).
· cites it 2× “§ 63 — 11— 30(l)(d)(i); Miss.Code Ann. § 63-3-707 (Rev.2013). He pled nolo contendere in municipal court.”
Mosley v. State, 89 So. 3d 41 (Miss. Ct. App. 2011).
“Miss.Code Ann. § 63-3-707 (Rev.2004) (requiring the use of signals before turning and stopping); Miss.”
Conner v. Harris, 624 So. 2d 482 (Miss. 1993).
· cites it 2× “The jury found for the defendants, and Conner has appealed LAW Miss. Code Ann. § 63-3-707 (1972) provides in pertinent part: "No person shall turn a vehicle from a direct course upon a highway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety .”
Keith Leon Johnson v. State of Mississippi, 228 So. 3d 933 (Miss. Ct. App. 2017).
“2012)); see also Miss. Code Ann. § 63-3-707 (Rev. 2013). “Section 63-7-707 clearly requires a signal when other vehicles may be affected' by a turn—even when no accident is likely to occur as the result of the driver’s failure to give a proper signal.”
State Farm Auto Ins. Companies v. Davis, 887 So. 2d 192 (Miss. Ct. App. 2004).
“The specific statutory duties with which Davis was required to comply, as applicable to the facts at bar, include maintaining a proper lookout, as codified in Miss.Code Ann. § 63-3-707 (Rev.2004), and yielding the right-of-way, as codified in Miss.”
United States v. Dent, 258 F. App'x 626 (5th Cir. 2007).
“Because Mitchell testified at the hearing that the failure to use the turn signal did not affect him and that he could not recall whether others were at the intersection such that they could be affected, Dent argues that the left turn signal was not required.”
Mississippi Dep't of Pub. Saf. v. Sammie L. Durn (Miss. 2002).
“2 No person shall turn a vehicle from a direct course upon a highway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety and then only after giving a clearly audible signal by sounding the horn if a pedestrian may be affected by such movement or after giving an…”
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