A. A person who drives the wrong way on a controlled access highway commits wrong-way driving.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-694

  • highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using a highway for purposes of travel. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Traffic survival school: means a school that is licensed pursuant to chapter 8, article 7. See Arizona Laws 28-101

B. A person who is found responsible for a violation of this section is subject to a civil penalty of five hundred dollars.

C. A person who is found responsible for a violation of this section shall attend and successfully complete approved traffic survival school educational sessions that are designed to improve the safety and habits of drivers.

D. For the purposes of this section, "wrong way" means vehicular movement that is in a direction opposing the legal flow of traffic. Wrong way does not include median crossing or a collision where a motor vehicle comes to a stop facing the wrong way.

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