Can you start overtaking in this situation?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the video you are driving in a town behind a cyclist on a hand-powered three-wheeled recumbent bicycle with a red flag, who is approaching a pedestrian crossing marked with sign D-6; beyond the crossing you can see sign D-1 "priority road". In this situation you cannot start overtaking. 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. A recumbent bicycle is a vehicle, the crossing has no traffic lights, and overtaking started now would end on the crossing or just beyond it - exactly where a pedestrian stepping off the pavement cannot see you because of the bicycle being overtaken. Sign D-1, visible further on, announces a junction where you have right of way, but this does not change the ban: right of way at a junction and overtaking before a crossing are two different things. So you stay behind the cyclist at a safe distance, follow him through the crossing, and only on the straight stretch beyond it do you overtake him with a distance of at least 1 m.
Legal basis: Art. 26 para. 3 point 1 and Art. 24 para. 1 point 1 and para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 47 para. 1 and 4 and § 43 para. 1 of the Regulation on road signs and signals