§ 17-55. Vehicles approaching or entering intersection.

(a)

Except as may otherwise be provided in this article, the driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle which has entered the intersection from a different highway.

(b)

Except as may otherwise be provided in this article, when two (2) vehicles enter an intersection from different highways at the same time the driver of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on the right.

(c)

The chief of police shall have authority to designate boulevards, on which all vehicles shall have the right-of-way over vehicles crossing the same.

(d)

At all street crossings on boulevards, and at dangerous crossings on all other streets, appropriate traffic signs shall be maintained by the police department. Vehicles entering or crossing such boulevards or dangerous crossings shall stop before entering or crossing the same and proceed with caution. The drivers of vehicles approaching all other street crossings must have the vehicles under control and approach the same with caution.

(e)

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 such through highway or which are approaching so closely on such through highway as to constitute an immediate hazard. However, such driver having so yielded may proceed and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching the intersection on such through highway shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle so proceeding into or across the through highway.

(f)

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 (1) 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.

State law reference

Right-of-way at intersections, MCA 1972, §§ 63-3-801, 63-3-805.