You're Making A Left Turn Into A Multiple Lane Road....

[Mr. Ected]

You swing a bit wide and take the outside, rather than the inside, lane.

Have you just violated a state law?

If you live in Georgia, you did. Or didn't.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/06/08/georgia_left_turn.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

It should seem easy enough to write a law declaring it illegal to make a left-hand turn into the far right-hand lane on a multi-lane road.

But the Georgia Legislature so badly mangled the wording of the law the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday found it “unconstitutionally vague.”

A plain reading of the statute renders two “diametrically opposite interpretations,” Justice Carol Hunstein wrote. A person of “common intelligence” cannot determine with reasonable certainty that the law prohibits making a left-hand turn into the right lane of a multi-lane roadway, the ruling said.

Until the Legislature meets next year and fixes the law, police cannot longer hand out tickets to motorists who make the improper turn.

[petronius]

1. I don't know how they get two opposite interpretations - I can't even come up

with one interpretation that makes any sense:

"Whenever practicable, the left turn shall be made to the left of the center of the intersection and so as to leave the intersection or other location in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully avilable to traffic moving in the same direction as such vehicle on the roadway being entered.”

Looks like some legislator let the interns stay up all night writing new laws - and in a sleep-deprived coffee-charged state of dementia they came up with this...

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Sounds like you have go into the left lane while simultaneously staying out of it

:crazy:

That is indeed a totally garbled bit of nonsensical writing.

[Strong Atheist]

2. I got hit because of this once ...

:grr: