You are driving a passenger car with a lightweight trailer. Are you allowed to drive on a road beyond the visible prohibition sign?

In the video, you are driving along a street in a town next to a historic half-timbered church; before the junction there is sign B-5 "no entry for lorries" on the right. When driving a passenger car with a light trailer, you are allowed to enter the road beyond this sign. The answer is: yes.

The Regulation on road signs and signals states that sign B-5 means that traffic is prohibited for lorries with a maximum permissible mass over 3.5 t, road tractors, special vehicles with a mass over 3.5 t, agricultural tractors and slow-moving vehicles. A vehicle combination made up of a passenger car and a light trailer, that is a trailer with a maximum permissible mass of up to 750 kg, is not a lorry or any of the other vehicles listed, so the ban does not cover it. A trailer would change the situation only with signs that apply to it directly: B-7 "no entry for power-driven vehicles with a trailer" or B-18 with a limit on actual total mass, if the combination exceeded that limit. When you drive with a trailer into a town street, you remember its size: a wider turning path on bends, a longer braking distance and more difficult reversing; different speed limits outside built-up areas also apply to a vehicle combination.

Legal basis: § 18 para. 4 of the Regulation on road signs and signals; Art. 2 point 51 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)