Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — The Law of the Road. [ARTICLE]

The Law of the Road.

By the law of the road Is meant those rules and regulations established for the control and guidance of persons while using the'highway as distinguished from the great body of law conceiving roads and streets. In the United States the law of the road requires that persons with vehicles when meeting on the highway shall drive their respective vehicles to the right sufficiently to allow them to pass each other without interference, and when passing another vehicle going in the same direction the driver is required to turn to the left, and the person In front is forbidden to interfere with the one in the rear passing if the road is sufficiently wide for one to pass. This is the general rule throughout the United States, and is usually established by statutes, which vary slightly in their wording. But the same rule prevails in the absence of a statute.