I've searched several places on the net and haven't been able to find a definitive answer....enter CF.net. What are the laws in TX concerning U-turns. I seem to remember them differently in IL than what people tell me in TX. If making a U-turn at an intersection on a 4-lane divided road, and another car is turning right at a stop sign (both cars wanting to end up going the same way on the same road), who has the right-of-way? The U-turn was made where the road widens to 5 lanes to allow cars to turn left into an apartment complex. The U-turn car got into the left turn lane (as if entering the apartments) and proceeded to make a U-turn from that lane. Any links (so I can print it out to prove it) will be much appreciated with a $5 tipjar donation.
Speaking of U-turns, one of my pet peeves is when idiots decide to take illegal u-turns, and the back half of their cars is stuck in the lane they're taking the u-turn from, causing a backlog of traffic in that lane, and subsequently causing people to miss the upcoming traffic light, as it turns from green to red. I see idiots doing this ALL the time on Westheimer when I drive home every night. I honk like hell to try to embarass them, but alas it does no good. Stop taking illegal u-turns people!
The rant was not aimed at you. It was a general spewing of venom towards those making u-turns at obviously illegal places.
I always thought that if you can make a legal left turn, you can make a U turn as long as it is not posted otherwise.
Drapg, I didn't think it was aimed at me. Actually, I feel the same way. I'm just trying to find out who had the right of way in this case. I was the car at the stop sign. So far my search has been fruitless, so I thought I'd try here.
I believe that this is correct, but as goophers pointed out, most people can time this move correctly and end up causing backups. I usually avoid doing U-turns, not because I can't, but because I don't have a U-turn signal on my car. How is the other driver supposed to know that you are making a U-turn? I have had enough close calls like ArtV had to realize that it just isn't worth the 30 seconds it saved me to not pull into a random parking lot and turn around.
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/ftp/forms/DLhandbook.pdf There's the entire Texas driver's handbook in pdf format...The only thing I could find on U-Turns was in chapter 5. I say that the U-turn was legal, but it's still considered a "left turn", since you're turning your wheel to the left, so the guy making the right turn has the right of way...
As a driver, I've always assumed the U-turner was last in priority on the right-of-way. What the law is, I don't know.
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