§ 42-4-703 — Entering through highway - stop or yield intersection

Colorado § 42-4-703

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 42: Vehicles and
• Art.: Regulation of Vehicles and Traffic

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(1) The
department of transportation and local authorities, within their respective
jurisdictions, may erect and maintain stop signs, yield signs, or other official traffic
control devices to designate through highways or to designate intersections or
other roadway junctions at which vehicular traffic on one or more of the roadways is
directed to yield or to stop and yield before entering the intersection or junction. In
the case of state highways, such regulations shall be subject to the provisions of
section 43-2-135 (1)(g), C.R.S.

(2) Every sign erected pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall be a
standard sign adopted by the department of transportation.

(3) Except when directed to proceed by a police officer, every driver of a
vehicle approaching a stop sign shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none,
before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if none, then
at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of
approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering it. After having
stopped, the driver shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or
approaching on another roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard
during the time when such driver is moving across or within the intersection or
junction of roadways.

(4) The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign, in obedience to such sign,
shall slow to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions and, if required for
safety to stop, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, before entering
the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if none, then at the point
nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic
on the intersecting roadway before entering it. After slowing or stopping, the driver
shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on
another roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time
such driver is moving across or within the intersection or junction of roadways;
except that, if a driver is involved in a collision with a vehicle in the intersection or
junction of roadways after driving past a yield sign without stopping, such collision
shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the driver's failure to yield right-of-way.

(5) Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a class A
traffic infraction.

Legislative History

Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2347, � 1, effective January 1, 1995.