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13-1206. Right to assume driver will obey the law.

            A driver has the right to assume that other drivers will obey the law unless the driver sees, or by the exercise of ordinary care should have seen, that the driver of the other vehicle will not obey the law or is unable to avoid a collision.

[As amended, effective January 1, 1987.]

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