defined in Title 7 §541.001 of the Texas Transportation Code as “the right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian that is approaching from a direction at a speed and within a proximity that could cause a collision unless one grants precedence to the other” (8). This is the land (usually a strip) acquired for or devoted to highway transportation purposes (15).
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