Tennesse traffic laws

[Jza]

Originally Posted by JMT

Yes, you can turn right at a red light after coming to a complete stop unless it's posted otherwise.

Just found another answer to one of my Q's. Thanks JMT. Also I could talk about how much I hate NJ drivers but there's enough Jersey bashing in the NJ forum already. I've never been in an accident and frankly, I am amazed.

[jack sterling]

Can you turn right on a red arrow that is at a 45 degree angle?

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by jack sterling

Can you turn right on a red arrow that is at a 45 degree angle?

Are you referring to traffic lights such as those used in certain European countries?

[southernfried]

Originally Posted by JMT

That's one thing that used to drive me crazy about living in Memphis: after the light turned yellow (and even red) about 4-5 cars continued to turn left. I mean, ALL THE TIME. I'd never seen that anywhere else in Tennessee. I finally decided I wasn't going to be like that, so I would sit defiantly in the left-turn lane and not move after the light turned yellow. Drivers behind me would start honking their horns and giving me dirty looks, but I refused to do it.

One thing that drives me crazy about something a lot of people around here do: they'll turn on their blinkers if the car IN FRONT of them is turning.

Hey JMT sounds like youve been to Jackson,I swear I belive they got there license for a krackerjack box!!

[rccrain]

In most areas of the United States, it is also legal to make some left turns on red. In all cases, the road being turned onto must be one-way. Making a left-turn on red from a two-way street is legal in only five states: Alaska, Idaho, Michigan, Oregon, and Washington. In Washington, freeway on-ramps are considered one-way streets for the purposes of the left turn on red law.

In 37 other states and Puerto Rico, it is legal to make a left turn on red only from a one-way street to another one-way street.

Left turns on red are prohibited in the states of South Dakota (unless permitted by local ordinance), Connecticut, Maine, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Rhode Island and in the District of Columbia and Guam, as well as in New York City, unless a sign indicates otherwise.