Driving: can you turn left across a double solid yellow line?

Self-tutoring about driving: the tutor inquires about turning left across a double solid yellow line.

I’ve always thought it was illegal to cross a double solid yellow line. Therefore, if, along a double solid yellow line, I wanted to turn left into a destination, I would continue past until I could turn off the road, then return and enter the destination from the right.

Yet, my reading today suggests you can turn left across a double solid yellow line, if you are leaving or entering the road. Therefore, turning left across a double solid yellow line is permitted to turn into a driveway, for instance.

While making such a turn, however, the driver is under extra obligation to ensure its safety.

Such is my new understanding. There are source links below whence anyone can make their interpretation:)

Source:

bc-injury-law.com

www.bclaws.ca in partcular, 155 & 156

www.drivesmartbc.ca

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.

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