Are you permitted to overtake a vehicle in the right lane on a pedestrian crossing?

In the video you are driving in town in the left-hand lane of a roadway with two lanes in your direction; in the right-hand lane a white car is braking before a pedestrian crossing marked with sign D-6, without traffic lights. You are not allowed to overtake it on the crossing. The answer is: no.

The Road Traffic Act prohibits a driver from overtaking a vehicle on a pedestrian crossing and immediately before it, except at a crossing where traffic is controlled. The crossing in the video has no traffic lights and no person directing traffic, so the ban applies fully - and regardless of whether anyone is on the crossing. The purpose of the rule is simple: the car you are overtaking hides part of the crossing from you, and hides you from the pedestrian; the white car is braking, which may mean that its driver can see someone you cannot see yet. In addition, the Act prohibits passing (going around) a vehicle that has stopped to give way to a pedestrian. You slow down together with the car in the right-hand lane, stop before the crossing if it stops, and overtake only after the crossing.

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