In this scenario, does the loader excavator entering the intersection pose a hazard?

In the video you are driving along a housing estate street with right of way (sign D-1); a yellow loader excavator is entering the junction from the minor road on the left, and a white van is coming from the opposite direction. The loader excavator entering the junction is a hazard. The answer is: yes.

The Road Traffic Act requires you to exercise particular caution when approaching a junction and allows you, under the principle of limited trust, to be prepared for unusual behaviour by others when the circumstances suggest it. The loader excavator coming from the minor road should give way to you, but it is a slow-moving vehicle: it moves off slowly, stays in the junction for a long time, has a wide bucket and arm, and the operator in the high cab has limited visibility and may misjudge your speed. If it has already entered the junction, your right of way will not help you - you will still be the one who has to brake. In addition, a van is coming from the opposite direction, so you have no escape to the left. You slow down in advance, are ready to stop before the junction and let the machine through if it does not manage to leave the junction in time.

Legal basis: Art. 25 para. 1, Art. 4 and Art. 3 para. 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 43 para. 1 of the Regulation on road signs and signals