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Left Turn Law * USA - Georgia's Court says: Violates constitution
Georgia's left-hand rule that left many baffled will now have to be left out of the law books
Atlanta,GA,USA -The Associated Press/The Trucker, by GREG BLUESTEIN -8 June 2009: -- Making a left turn sounds simple enough. But after considering a lawsuit by a frustrated motorist, Georgia's Supreme Court says the state traffic law governing left turns is so baffling that it violates the constitution... Georgia's mystifying left-hand rule was struck down Monday by the state's top court... The Supreme Court's unanimous finding that the law is "unconstitutionally vague" does not bind other states, but it could embolden other challenges. About 75 percent of states use an identical statute, according to an analysis by attorney Ben Goldberg, who filed the challenge on behalf of the aggrieved driver... At the center of the argument is rambling language that has been a part of the traffic code in Georgia — and other states — for decades: ... "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 available to traffic moving in the same direction as such vehicle on the roadway being entered."... Local prosecutors say the meaning is simple: Drivers making a left turn must turn into the inside lane... The Georgia court's unanimous ruling, penned by Presiding Justice, Carol Hunstein, struck down the law on grounds it is so vague that a person of "common intelligence" is forced to guess at its meaning... For Goldberg, it's one more step toward making the left turn a little less confusing... "There are a lot of traffic laws, and as an attorney reading them I have trouble understanding what they say," said Goldberg. "As citizens, we're all entitled to be able to understand exactly what the government mandates."...(Video from YouTube, by CaliforniaDMV - 31 July 2007: "California DMV - Driving Tests # 4 Illegal Left Turn" Top 10 Reasons for Failing the Driving Test)
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