HCC §24-138
How to enter a yield sign intersection
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗When you approach a yield sign, you must slow down and give the right of way to cars already in the intersection or close enough to be a danger. If you go through a yield sign without stopping and hit another car, the law assumes you failed to yield.
The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Procedure for entering yield intersections
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
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 the driver is moving across or within the intersection; provided, however, that if a driver is involved in a collision with a vehicle in the intersection after driving past a yield sign without stopping, the collision shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the driver’s failure to yield right-of-way.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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