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Right Of Way 🛑 ⚠️ | Gerber Injury Law | Arizona Injury Lawyers

00:00:00.480 welcome to the 20th episode of lawn
00:00:02.879 gerber it seems like just yesterday we
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00:00:55.440 we’ve all heard the term right of way
00:00:58.000 time and time again but in having recent
00:01:00.559 conversations with some of our clients
00:01:02.800 it’s become glaringly obvious that many
00:01:04.959 people do not understand how these laws
00:01:07.360 work anytime you get behind the wheel of
00:01:09.600 a vehicle chances are you will have to
00:01:11.680 yield the right-of-way to someone else
00:01:13.360 on the roadway this can include yielding
00:01:15.520 to other vehicles yielding to
00:01:17.439 pedestrians bicyclists commercial trucks
00:01:20.640 etc arizona has several laws pertaining
00:01:23.600 to the right-of-way in place to help
00:01:25.600 prevent vehicle accidents here we want
00:01:28.320 to discuss the most important
00:01:29.920 right-of-way laws in the state of
00:01:31.680 arizona that you need to be aware of
00:01:33.840 what do right-of-way laws do
00:01:36.159 right-of-way laws are essential in
00:01:38.159 arizona in every state really these laws
00:01:41.040 help ensure that every person allowed to
00:01:43.600 use the roadway does so in a manner that
00:01:46.479 does not result in an accident
00:01:48.479 individuals cannot insist on taking the
00:01:51.280 right of way the law focuses on who has
00:01:54.720 to yield rather than who actually has
00:01:57.360 the right of way a driver who is
00:01:59.200 required to yield the right-of-way must
00:02:01.360 stop in yield or they could face a
00:02:03.840 ticket from law enforcement when do
00:02:05.759 drivers have to yield the right-of-way
00:02:08.160 drivers are required to yield the
00:02:09.919 right-of-way to other drivers bicyclists
00:02:12.800 or pedestrians in the following
00:02:14.720 situations
00:02:16.080 when they are at a yield sign to those
00:02:18.319 who appear to be visually handicapped or
00:02:21.440 have a guide dog
00:02:23.040 to pedestrians at a crosswalk
00:02:25.680 vehicles on roads at a t intersection
00:02:29.360 to other vehicles at uncontrolled
00:02:31.599 intersections
00:02:33.040 to oncoming cars bicyclists and
00:02:35.599 pedestrians
00:02:36.400 when turning left
00:02:38.239 and when returning to the roadway from a
00:02:40.720 parking lot what does yield to the
00:02:42.959 driver on the right mean
00:02:44.879 you may have heard that you have to
00:02:46.160 yield to the driver on the right in
00:02:47.519 certain circumstances this is a law that
00:02:50.080 surrounds who has the right of way when
00:02:52.080 two drivers arrive in an intersection at
00:02:54.640 the same time if you’re at an
00:02:56.640 uncontrolled intersection one without a
00:02:59.120 yield or a stop sign then you should
00:03:01.120 slow down and yield to any vehicle
00:03:03.680 already in the intersection or vehicles
00:03:06.400 that are about to enter the intersection
00:03:08.400 in front of you
00:03:09.760 drivers have to yield to the vehicles
00:03:11.519 that arrived first in these scenarios if
00:03:14.319 you and another vehicle arrive at the
00:03:15.920 same time at an uncontrolled
00:03:17.519 intersection you are required to yield
00:03:19.920 to the car on your right
00:03:22.159 what happens at four-way stops
00:03:24.640 there are plenty of four-way stop signs
00:03:26.480 throughout the state of arizona in
00:03:28.000 general the first car to arrive at a
00:03:30.560 four-way stop will have the right-of-way
00:03:33.040 and all other drivers should yield
00:03:35.599 if two drivers arrive at a four-way stop
00:03:38.400 at the same time
00:03:40.000 then the vehicle on the left should
00:03:42.159 yield to the vehicle on the right
00:03:44.319 what do you do if there is no traffic
00:03:46.480 control signal or sign
00:03:48.480 if there’s no signal control for cross
00:03:50.959 traffic you should stop until the cross
00:03:53.280 traffic is gone in other words if you
00:03:55.840 come to a stop sign
00:03:57.439 and the drivers going in the direction
00:03:59.360 perpendicular to where you are did not
00:04:01.840 have a stop sign then you have to wait
00:04:04.000 until the traffic is cleared before you
00:04:06.159 pull out to go across or into the
00:04:08.000 perpendicular lanes
00:04:09.760 how do you properly enter into a freeway
00:04:12.879 vehicles entering a freeway will use an
00:04:16.320 acceleration lane to do so
00:04:18.798 drivers inside the acceleration lane and
00:04:22.000 on-ramp or any other type of approaching
00:04:24.479 road must yield the right-of-way to the
00:04:26.960 traffic already on the freeway and only
00:04:29.840 merge when it’s safe to do so now these
00:04:32.160 are all by no means every single
00:04:34.800 situation that involves all the possible
00:04:37.199 right-of-way scenarios but it does give
00:04:39.520 you a great idea on the most common
00:04:41.919 types of scenarios at the risk of
00:04:44.000 sounding like a broken record if you
00:04:46.080 have been in some sort of an accident
00:04:47.840 where negligence was involved and you’re
00:04:49.759 having trouble figuring out whether you
00:04:51.840 or the other driver failed to adhere to
00:04:54.000 the right-of-way laws here in arizona
00:04:56.160 don’t even waste another second just
00:04:58.160 pick up the phone and call us and we’ll
00:05:00.320 do everything that we can to help you
00:05:02.080 sort it all out as quickly as possible
00:05:05.840 hey babe
00:05:06.880 so we gotta go
00:05:08.560 literally right now i just heard five
00:05:10.720 ambulances going every which way in
00:05:13.199 front of the office if you go east and i
00:05:15.039 go west we’re bound to get an accident
00:05:17.680 that’s what we are ambulance chases
00:05:20.320 oh
00:05:21.680 he can just cut that right
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00:05:41.039 to someone else on the roadway this can
00:05:45.520 could face a ticket in arizona and every
00:05:48.240 state
00:05:49.600 really
00:05:50.720 these laws help ensure i don’t like why
00:05:52.960 i said
00:05:54.000 really like that vehicles entering a
00:05:56.800 freeway free free roar
00:05:59.680 here to the right-of-way laws and here
00:06:04.000 so close
00:06:05.280 could face a ticket