Are you obliged to move the motorcycle which got damaged in this place, to the emergency lane?

In the photo, on an expressway with noise barriers, at sign D-7, an immobilised motorcycle is standing in the right lane, and next to it, in the emergency lane (hard shoulder), the motorcyclist is standing - a breakdown or a collision without injured people. You must move the damaged motorcycle to the emergency lane. The answer is: yes.

The Road Traffic Act states that on a motorway or an expressway stopping or parking anywhere other than in designated places is prohibited, and if the vehicle was brought to a standstill for technical reasons, the driver must remove it from the roadway and warn other road users. The emergency lane is there exactly for this: it is a place where an immobilised vehicle does not block traffic. A motorcycle is light and one person can push it there in a dozen or so seconds, and every second in a traffic lane of an expressway means a risk of being hit by a vehicle driving at 120 km/h. After moving it, you switch on the hazard warning lights, place the triangle 100 m behind the vehicle and go behind the barrier to wait for help. The ban on removing the vehicle applies only when someone has been killed or injured in the accident - then you do not move the vehicle, but make the scene safe and call the emergency services.

Legal basis: Art. 49 para. 3, Art. 50 para. 1 point 1 and para. 2 point 1 and Art. 44 para. 1 point 3 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 48 para. 1 of the Regulation on road signs and signals