You intend to turn left, and the driver of the vehicle approaching from the opposite direction plans to drive straight ahead. Are you obliged to yield the right of way?

In the video, you are approaching a junction on a housing estate, where you intend to turn left; a red car is coming from the opposite direction, and its driver plans to go straight on. You are obliged to give way to it. The answer is: yes.

The Road Traffic Act states that a driver approaching a junction is required to exercise particular caution and give way to a vehicle approaching from the right, and if turning left - also to a vehicle coming from the opposite direction and going straight on or turning right. Giving way means not moving if this could force another driver to change direction or lane or to change speed significantly - so it is not enough to "get through before them" if the oncoming driver would have to slow down because of it. You wait near the centre of the roadway with your left indicator on and your wheels pointing straight ahead until the red car has passed the junction, and if more cars are following it, you let them all through until there is a gap that allows you to turn calmly. On a housing estate you also watch out for pedestrians, to whom you give way when turning into the intersecting road, and for cyclists riding on the pavement or the shoulder.

Legal basis: Art. 25 para. 1, Art. 2 point 23 and Art. 26 para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)