Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 393

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 41 OF TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE PERTAINING TO DRIVING REGULATIONS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. Section 4139 (a) of Title 21 of the Delaware Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The driver of a vehicle about to enter or cross a highway from a private road or driveway or from a crossover on a divided highway shall yield the right of way to all vehicles approaching on such highway.

Section 2. Section 4139 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code, is amended by adding thereto a new paragraph (c) as follows:

(c) Whenever a Yield sign, notifying drivers to yield the right of way, has been erected by the proper State or local authorities as provided in this Title, it shall be unlawful for a driver of any vehicle on the highway or street whose traffic is regulated by such sign to fail to yield the right of way to any vehicle approaching on or from another highway, street, or merging roadway or to a pedestrian legally crossing the roadway. Any such driver, having so yielded, shall not proceed or enter into, upon or across such highway, street or merging roadway until such movement can be made in safety.

Approved May 23, 1962.