In the present situation, are you obliged to be particularly careful?

In the photo, a town street next to a shopping centre; you are approaching a pedestrian crossing with a cycle crossing, marked with sign D-6b, which a family with children is crossing, and there are cars that have stopped at the crossing. You are obliged to exercise particular caution. The answer is: yes.

The Road Traffic Act requires a driver approaching a pedestrian crossing to exercise particular caution, to reduce speed so as not to endanger a pedestrian who is on the crossing or stepping onto it, and to give way to a pedestrian on the crossing or stepping onto it. The Regulation on road signs and signals adds that a driver approaching a place marked with sign D-6 or D-6b reduces speed so as not to endanger pedestrians and cyclists who are in these places or entering them. The pedestrians are on the crossing, and among them is a small child whose behaviour is unpredictable - the child may stop, step back or pull away from an adult's hand. Particular caution here means: stopping before the crossing, waiting until the whole family has left the roadway, and checking that nobody else is entering the pedestrian crossing or the cycle crossing.

Legal basis: Art. 26 para. 1 and para. 3 point 1 and 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 47 para. 3 and 4 of the Regulation on road signs and signals