What is the principle that a vehicle coming from the right has by statue or by-law the right of way?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Trytko v. Kafafi, 2006 BCPC 349 (CanLII):
The principle stated is consistent with what MacDonald C.J.B.C. held in Lloyd v. Hanafin (1931), 43 B.C. 401 at p. 402: “The vehicle coming from the right has by statue or by-law the right of way, but where the other vehicle has reached the intersecting street substantially ahead of the one having the right of way he is not obliged to wait upon the other if the way appears to be clear.”
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