8-1528. Stop signs and yield signs; duties of drivers.
8-1528
8-1528. Stop signs and yield signs; duties of drivers.
(a) Preferential right-of-way may be indicated by stop signs or yield
signs as authorized in K.S.A. 8-2008, and amendments thereto.
(b) 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. Such driver shall yield the
right-of-way to pedestrians within an adjacent crosswalk.
(c) The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall in obedience
to such sign slow down 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.
Such
driver shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians within an adjacent
crosswalk. If
a driver is involved in a collision with a vehicle in the intersection or
junction of roadways or with a pedestrian in an adjacent crosswalk, after
driving past a yield sign without stopping,
such collision shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the
driver's failure
to yield the right-of-way.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1528;
L. 1995, ch. 188, § 5; July 1.