MS Car Wreck or Accident – Wrecks At Intersections, Who Is At Fault?

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MS Car Wreck or Accident – Wrecks At Intersections, Who Is At Fault?

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MS Car Wreck or Accident – Wrecks At Intersections, Who Is At Fault?

by Jay Foster, Mississippi Car Wreck Attorney

In a Mississippi car wreck, if you are at an intersection and a wreck happens, who is at fault?

We must first examine the Mississippi Laws or Statutes associated with a a driver’s duties at intersections in Mississippi. Specifically, Section 63-3-805 of the Mississippi Code provides, in pertinent part, that cars entering through highways or stop intersections, must:

The driver of a vehicle shall stop as required by this chapter at the entrance to a through highway and shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which have entered the intersection from said through highway as to constitute an immediate hazard. However, said driver having so yielded may proceed and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching the intersection on said through highway shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle so proceedings into or across the through highway.

The driver of a vehicle shall likewise stop in obedience to a stop sign as required by this chapter at an intersection where a stop sign is erected at one or more entrances thereto although not a part of a through highway and shall proceed cautiously, yielding to vehicles not so obliged to stop which are within the intersection or approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard, but may then proceed.

In other words, if you are driving in Mississippi and you come up to an intersection, you must first obey any stop sign or other traffice device and a driver can only proceed into the intersection after yielding to any oncoming vehicles “which are approaching so closely on [Highway 98] as to constitute an immediate hazard.”

If you have questions about this or any other type of question about a Mississippi car wreck, please call or email Jay Foster.

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