Arrest Reports and Laws

Failure to yield right of way at uncontrolled T intersection; penalty.


(1) A person commits the offense of failure to yield the right of way at an uncontrolled T intersection if the person is operating a motor vehicle on a highway that ends at an uncontrolled T intersection and the person does not yield the right of way to any driver who is on the highway at the top of the T intersection.
(2) As used in this section and ORS 811.275:
(a) T intersection means an intersection at which one highway is perpendicular to another and at which one of the highways ends.
(b) Top of the T intersection means the highway that does not end at the junction of two highways.
(3) The offense described in this section, failure to yield the right of way at an uncontrolled T intersection, is a Class B traffic violation. [2003 c.183 §2]