Can you overtake a vehicle from the right in the illustrated situation?
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Correct answer
YES
Explanation
You are driving in town on a roadway that has three lanes in your direction, and vehicles going the other way travel on a separate roadway beyond a grass strip. So your roadway is a one-way roadway with marked lanes, and on such a roadway you may overtake on the right. You may overtake the white car ahead of you using the right-hand lane - provided you meet the usual conditions for safe overtaking.
The Road Traffic Act allows overtaking on the right on a stretch of road with marked lanes on a one-way roadway, and on a two-way roadway when at least two lanes in a built-up area (three outside it) lead in the same direction. Before the manoeuvre, you make sure that you have space and visibility and that no one behind you has started to overtake you. The driver you are overtaking does not expect you on the right, so watch whether he intends to change lanes.
Legal basis: Art. 24 para. 1 and para. 10 point 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)