[RSMo. §300.255]
Those streets and parts of streets described by ordinances of the City are declared to be through streets for the purposes of Sections
335.010 to
335.090.
[Ord. No. 814 §16, 8-2-1960; CC 1976 §33-209]
Whenever any ordinance of the City designates and describes
a through street, it shall be the duty of the City Traffic Engineer
to place and maintain a stop sign, or on the basis of an engineering
and traffic investigation at any intersection, a yield sign, on each
and every street intersecting such through street unless traffic at
any such intersection is controlled at all times by traffic-control
signals; provided however, at the intersection of two (2) such through
streets or at the intersection of a through street and a heavy traffic
street not so designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches
of either of said streets as may be determined by the City Traffic
Engineer upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study.
[Ord. No. 814 §16, 8-2-1960; CC 1976 §33-210]
The City Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazards exists upon other than through streets and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one (1) or more entrances to any such intersection, in which event he shall cause to be erected a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required, or whether vehicles shall yield the right of way to vehicles on a different street at such intersection as prescribed in Subsection
(A) of Section
335.040, in which event he shall cause to be erected a yield sign at every place where obedience thereto is required.
[CC 1976 §33-212]
Except when directed to proceed by a Police Officer or traffic-control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersection indicated by a stop sign shall stop as required by Subsection
(B) of Section
335.040, and after having stopped shall yield the right of way to any vehicle which has entered the intersection from another highway or which is approaching so closely on said highway as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time when such driver is moving across or within the intersection.
[CC 1976 §33-213]
The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall in obedience
to such sign slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions
and shall yield the right of way to any vehicle in the intersection
or approaching on another highway so closely as to constitute an immediate
hazard during the time such driver is moving across or within the
intersection; provided, however, if such a driver is involved in a
collision with a vehicle in the intersection, after driving past a
yield sign without stopping, such collision shall be deemed prima
facie evidence of his failure to yield the right of way.
[CC 1976 §33-214]
The driver of a vehicle within a business or residence district
emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle
immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk
area extending across any alleyway or driveway, and shall yield the
right of way to any pedestrian as may be necessary to avoid collision,
and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right of way to all
vehicles approaching on said roadway.
[CC 1976 §33-215]
No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk
unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection
or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing
the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any
traffic-control signal indication to proceed.
[Ord. No. 814 §39, 8-2-1960; CC 1976 §28-4]
A. Whenever
any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing
under any of the circumstances stated in this Section, the driver
of such vehicle shall stop within fifty (50) feet, but not less than
fifteen (15) feet from the nearest rail of such railroad, and shall
not proceed until he can do so safely. The foregoing requirements
shall apply when:
1. A clearly visible electric or mechanical signal device gives warning
of the immediate approach of a railroad train;
2. A crossing gate is lowered or when a human flagman gives or continues
to give a signal of the approach or passage of a railroad train;
3. A railroad train approaching within approximately fifteen hundred
(1,500) feet of the highway crossing emits a signal audible from such
distance and such railroad train, by reason of its speed or nearness
to such crossing, is an immediate hazard;
4. An approaching railroad train is plainly visible and is in hazardous
proximity to such crossing.
B. No
person shall drive any vehicle through, around or under any crossing
gate or barrier at a railroad crossing while such gate or barrier
is closed or is being opened or closed.