55-8-128 - Vehicle approaching or entering intersection.

55-8-128. Vehicle approaching or entering intersection.

(a)  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)  When two (2) vehicles enter an intersection from different highways at approximately 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 right-of-way rules declared in subsections (a) and (b) are modified at through highways and otherwise as hereinafter stated in this chapter and chapter 10, parts 1-5 of this title.

[Acts 1955, ch. 329, § 27; T.C.A., § 59-828.]