Drury

STATEMENT OF FACTS

At about 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 10, 2018, respondent Kathy Ryan was traveling northbound down Highland Springs Avenue in Beaumont towards a local Food 4 Less grocery store where she wished to run errands. She pulled into a left turn pocket on Highland Springs Avenue in order to turn into the grocery store parking lot. She stopped in the left turn pocket, waiting for oncoming traffic to clear. Ryan was very familiar with this turn and with the intersection, as she had made the turn many times before. The southbound lane of Highland Springs Avenue had three lanes of traffic. There were no traffic lights or stop signs where the left turn pocket was located, requiring drivers to make the turn unprotected. Ryan saw there were cars in the opposite lanes. In the first southbound lane, the one closest to the center of the road, Ryan said she saw the traffic had essentially stopped for her. In the second southbound lane, the middle lane, she said there were also some cars stopped.2 She said the drivers of the cars in those lanes were gesturing to her, indicating she could turn. Ryan testified that she could see clearly into the third southbound lane, the one…