Lindner v. Ahlgren

The defendant won a jury verdict in an intersection collision case and plaintiff appeals.

The plaintiff was driving north and the defendant east. The collision admittedly occurred at least three feet to the left of the center of the street upon which plaintiff was traveling or upon plaintiff’s “wrong side of the road.” Defendant charged the plaintiff was negligent in failing to drive on the right half of the highway.

ORS 483.302 provides:

“(1) Except as otherwise provided by ORS 483.304, upon all highways of sufficient width, the driver of a vehicle shall drive on the right half of the highway…