ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 615

to be passed by the use of his horn or other signalling device,
and that no vehicle shall pass another from the rear at the top
or near the top of a hill or on a curve where the view ahead is in
anywise obstructed or while the vehicle ahead is crossing an
intersecting highway or any steam or electric railway crossing;
any vehicle so overtaken shall promptly, upon signal, turn as
far as reasonably possible to the right in order to allow free
passage on the left.

At the intersection of public highways all vehicles shall keep
to the right of the center of such highways, and close to the
right-hand side of the road when turning to the right, and pass
to the right of the center of such intersection when turning to
the left, and before making such turn to the left, shall keep
as close to the center on the right hand side of the road as
practicable.

Slow-moving vehicles, including motor trucks, shall at all
times keep as close to the right-hand side of the highway as
practicable, regard being had to the width and construction
of such highway.

All vehicles about to turn from the road upon which they are
traveling into any intersecting road shall gradually reduce their
speed to a point not exceeding twelve miles an hour for a dis-
tance of not less than twenty-five feet before beginning to make
such turn, and where the view of the intersecting road is
obstructed, preserve such reduced rates of speed until the
turn has been completed.

Except as hereinafter provided, all vehicles shall have the
right of way over other vehicles approaching at intersecting
public roads from the left, and shall give right of way to those
approaching from the right. The operator of a vehicle enter-
ing a paved public highway, which is hereby defined to be
a highway having a hard, smooth surface, composed of gravel,
shells, crushed stone, paving blocks, asphalt, concrete or other
similar substance, from an unpaved public highway, or from
a private road or drive, shall come to a full stop upon reach-
ing the intersection, and yield the right of way to all vehicles
approaching on such paved public highway. The operator
of a vehicle upon a highway shall yield the right of way to
ambulances and police and fire department vehicles when the
latter are operated upon official business and the drivers there-
of sound audible signal by bell, siren or exhaust whistle. This
provision shall not operate to relieve the operator of an am-
bulance or of a police or fire department vehicle from the