2020 Georgia Code
Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 6 - Uniform Rules of the Road
Article 6 - Turning, Starting, Signaling
§ 40-6-125. Method of Giving Hand and Arm Signals
All signals required by this article when given by hand and arm shall be given from the left side of the vehicle in the following manner and shall indicate as follows:
- Left turn, hand and arm extended horizontally;
- Right turn, hand and arm extended upward;
- Stop or decrease speed, hand and arm extended downward.
(Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 71; Code 1933, § 68A-606, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR.
- Reciprocal duties of drivers of automobiles or other vehicles proceeding in the same direction, 24 A.L.R. 507; 47 A.L.R. 703; 62 A.L.R. 970; 104 A.L.R. 485.
Sudden or unsignaled stop or slowing of motor vehicle as negligence, 29 A.L.R.2d 5.
Liability for accident arising from motorist's failure to give signal for right turn, 38 A.L.R.2d 143.
Liability for accident arising from failure of motorist to give signal for left turn at intersection as against motor vehicle proceeding in same direction, 39 A.L.R.2d 15.
Liability for accident arising from failure of motorist to give signal for left turn at intersection, as against oncoming or intersecting motor vehicle, 39 A.L.R.2d 65.
Liability for accident arising from failure of motorist to give signal for left turn between intersections, 39 A.L.R.2d 103.
