Are you allowed to overtake a cyclist at a pedestrian crossing if you exercise extreme caution?

In the photo you are driving along a street in town and approaching a pedestrian crossing marked with sign D-6; in front of you a cyclist is just riding across the zebra crossing. You must not overtake the cyclist on the pedestrian crossing, even if you exercise particular caution. 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 by signals or a police officer. A bicycle is a vehicle, and the crossing in the photo has no traffic lights, so the ban applies in full - "particular caution" changes nothing here, because this is an absolute ban, not a condition. The purpose of the rule: the cyclist being overtaken hides part of the crossing from you, and you hide the rest from the cyclist and from a pedestrian; a pedestrian stepping out from behind the bicycle has no chance of seeing you. There is also the requirement to keep a distance of at least 1 m from the bicycle being overtaken, which at this place, next to the zebra crossing, usually cannot be kept without entering the opposite lane. You stay behind the cyclist, cross the pedestrian crossing behind them and overtake only further on, when there is room.

Legal basis: Art. 26 para. 3 point 1 and Art. 24 para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 47 para. 1 and 4 of the Regulation on road signs and signals