CHAPTER 510

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-190 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to reckless driving.
[H 482]

Approved March 381, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
te That § 46.1-190 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 46.1-190. A person shall be guilty of reckless driving who shall:

_ (a) Drive a vehicle when not under proper control or with inadequate
or improperly adjusted brakes upon any highway of this State;

b) While driving a vehicle, overtake and pass another vehicle pro-
ceeding in the same direction, upon or approaching the crest of a grade or
upon or approaching a curve in the highway, where the driver’s view along
the highway is obstructed, except where the overtaking vehicle is being
operated on a highway having two or more designated lanes of roadway
for each direction of travel or on a designated one-way street or highway;

(c) Drive a vehicle when it is so loaded, or when there are in the front
seat such number of persons, as to obstruct the view of the driver to the
front or sides of the vehicle or to interfere with the driver’s control over
the driving mechanism of the vehicle;

(d) Pass or attempt to pass two other vehicles abreast, moving in
the same direction, except on highways having separate roadways of three
or more lanes for each direction of travel, or on designated one-way streets
or highways;

e) Overtake or pass any other vehicle proceeding in the same direc-
tion at any steam, Diesel or electric railway grade crossing or at any inter-
section of highways unless such vehicles are being operated on a highway
having two or more designated lanes of roadway for each direction of
travel or on a designated one-way street or highway, or while pedestrians
are passing or about to pass in front of either of such vehicles, unless
permitted so to do by a traffic light or police officers;

(f) Fail to stop at a school bus whether publicly or privately owned
and whether transporting children to, from, or in connection with, a publte
or private school stopped on the highway for the purpose of taking on or
discharging school children, when approaching the same from any direction
and to remain stopped until all school children are clear of the highway
and the bus is put in motion, provided, however, that this shall apply only
to school buses marked or identified as provided in the regulations of the
State Board of Education;

(g) Fail to give adequate and timely signals of intention to turn,
partly turn, slow down or stop, as required by §§ 46.1-216 through
46.1-220;

(h) Exceed a reasonable speed under the circumstances and traffic
conditions existing at the time regardless of any posted speed limit;

(i) Drive a motor vehicle upon the highways of this State at a speed
in excess of 75 miles per hour; except as provided in subsection (1) of
this section;

(j) Fail to bring his vehicle to a stop immediately before entering a
highway from a side road when there is traffic approaching upon such
highway within five hundred feet of such point of entrance, unless a “Yield
Right of Way” sign is posted; or where such sign is posted, fail, upon enter-
ing such highway, to yield the right of way to the driver of a vehicle ap-
proaching on such highway from either direction; or

k) Drive or operate any automobile or other motor vehicle upon any
driveway or premises of a church, or school, or of any recreational facilities
or of any business property open to the public, recklessly or at a speed or
in a manner so as to endanger the life, limb or property of any person.

(1) Drive a truck or tractor or tractor-truck, or a motor vehicle being
used to tow a vehicle designed for self-propulsion, or a house-trailer, or
combination of vehicles designed to transport property, upon the highways
of this State at a speed in excess of 65 miles per hour.