united-states traffic texas
Who has right of way between a legal u-turn vs car driving out of a parking lot as per Texas rules?
<p>A car stopped in a left-only lane (not a traffic signal/intersection) on a main street and was making a u-turn (it is not prohibited) and no-through traffic from the opposite side. The car turns and has reached half-way at an angle into the third-lane (4-lane each way). At same time, a driver coming out of a parking lot takes a right and tried to move to the same lane and not the right-most(closest to curb) and meets this above car in an accident. </p>

<p>Since the car in the left-turn lane is on a main road, do they have right-of-way over the parking lot car. The first car turned into the lanes even before the other car drove out of the parking lot. Is there a law about who takes precedence in this case?</p>

<p>No party is granted the right of way, instead, some party is required to <em>yield</em> the right of way. <a href="https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._transp._code_section_545.155" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sec. 545.155 of the Texas Transportation Code</a> says</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>An operator about to enter or cross a highway from an alley, building,
  or private road or driveway shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle
  approaching on the highway to be entered.</p>
</blockquote>

<p><a href="https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._transp._code_section_545.256" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sec. 545.256</a> likewise requires that</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>An operator emerging from an alley, driveway, or building in a
  business or residence district shall:</p>
  
  <p>(1) stop the vehicle before moving on a sidewalk or the sidewalk area
  extending across an alley or driveway;</p>
  
  <p>(2) yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian to avoid collision; and</p>
  
  <p>(3) on entering the roadway, yield the right-of-way to an approaching
  vehicle.</p>
</blockquote>

<p><a href="https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._transp._code_section_545.101" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The law against wide right turns</a> says "To make a right turn at an intersection, an operator shall make both the approach and the turn as closely as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway"; <a href="https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._transp._code_section_541.303" rel="nofollow noreferrer">intersection</a> "means the common area at the junction of two highways, other than the junction of an alley and a highway", and <a href="https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._transp._code_section_541.302" rel="nofollow noreferrer">highway or street</a> "means the width between the boundary lines of a publicly maintained way any part of which is open to the public for vehicular travel", i.e. the part where the parking lot empties into the main road.</p>
