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Information on left turns?

I am doing a project for school and i some information on this. please tell me things like what states have laws that make this illegal and how hamy people die a year because of this. if you have any information on this topic at all please give it.


    




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A car making a left turn is almost always liable to a car coming straight in the other direction. Exceptions to this near-automatic liability can occur if:

the car going straight was going too fast (this is usually difficult to prove)

the car going straight went through a red light, or

the left-turn car began its turn when it was safe but something unexpected happened which made it have to slow down or stop its turn.

Whatever the contributing factors, the law says the car making the left turn must wait until it can safely complete the turn before moving in front of oncoming traffic.

Also, the location of the damage on the cars sometimes makes it difficult for the other driver to argue that the accident happened in some way other than during a left turn.

http://www.geocities.com/jusjih/trafficlightsignals.html#us


http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/







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