Regulating Traffic Upon the Public Streets of the City of South Bend

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-10» (b) when during said times or at any other times there is not sufficient light upon a street to reveal a person at a distance of 500 feet a parked vehicle shall be equipped with one or more lamps which shall exhibit a white light on the road- way side visable for a distance of 500 feet to the front of the vehicle and a red light visable from a distance of 500 feet to the rear. Any lighted headlamps upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed. Sec. 55. "Speed restrictions. " - -(a) No person shall drive a vehicle on a high- way at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing. (b) 'sihere no special hazard exists, the following speeds shall be lawful, but any speed in excess of said limits shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable or prudent and is unlawful. 1. Twenty miles per hour in any business district; 2. Thirty miles per hour in any residence district; 34 Forty -five miles per hour under other conditions. (c) The fact that the speed of a vehicle is lower than the foregoing prima facie limits shall not relieve the driver from the duty to decrease speed when a)proach- ing and crossing an intersection, ;-hen approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway, or when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weather or highway conditions, and speed shall be decreased as may be necessary ',o avoid colliding with any person, vehicle, or other conveyance on or entering the highway in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due care. (d) In every charge of violation of this section, the complaint, also the summons or notice to appear, shall specify the speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven, also the prima facie speed applicable within the district or at the location. (e) The foregoing provisions of this section shall not be construed to relieve the plaintiff in any civil action from the burden of proving negligence upon the part of the defendant as the proximate cause of an accident. Sec. 56. "Drive on right side of roadway, exceptions. " - -Upon all roadways of sufficient width a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows: 1. Vhen overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction under the rules governing such movement; 2. Then the right half of a roadway is closed to traffic while under con- struction or repair; 3. Upon a roadway divided into three mar'ed lanes for traffic under tae rules applicable thereon; or 4. Upon a roadway designated and sign- posted for one -way traffic.,.