Court Opinion

ID: 9739846
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:22:13.718718+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:31:00.272961
License: Public Domain

MORGAN, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur in the result and the gist of the opinion as I understand it, but I find the statements in the penultimate paragraph to be contradictory and illogical. In effect, the holding is: A motorist proceeding on green should not be deemed negligent because he failed to maintain a lookout — of course, this does not relieve him from maintaining a lookout — .
I agree with the author, based on the authorities cited, that a motorist entering a controlled intersection under the green light does not have to peer down the non-preferred streets to see if someone is going to run a red light. However, if the offending driver has entered the intersection and is in plain view, the preferred motorist may not blithely ignore the obvious. From the record before us, the latter was not the case, nor are we involved with other vehicles or pedestrians legally in the intersection.