Chapter 10.44
YIELD RIGHT-OF-WAY STREETS
Sections:
For statutory provisions authorizing municipalities to designate yield intersections, see 625 ILCS 5/11-302.
10.44.010 Designated.
Any street designated by ordinance as a yield right-of-way street and so posted is declared to be a yield right-of-way street. The following shall be yield streets:
Yield at 143rd and Atlantic for Wentworth.
10.44.020 Reduction of speed.
The driver of a vehicle in obedience to a yield right-of-way sign shall reduce the speed of his vehicle to not more than twenty miles per hour and shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which have entered the intersecting street either from the right or left or which are approaching so closely on such intersection as to constitute a hazard; but the driver having so yielded may proceed at such time as a safe interval occurs.
10.44.030 Collisions.
If a driver is involved in a collision at an intersection or interferes with the movement of other vehicles after driving past a yield-right-of-way sign, such collision shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the driver’s failure to yield right-of-way.