Despite exercising extreme caution, are you obliged to refrain from overtaking the motor vehicle at the nearest junction?

In the photo you are driving along a residential street behind a dark minibus and approaching a junction marked with sign A-5 "crossroads", without traffic lights. Even though you exercise particular caution, you are obliged to refrain from overtaking a power-driven vehicle at the nearest junction. The answer is: yes.

The Road Traffic Act prohibits overtaking a power-driven vehicle travelling on the roadway at a junction, except at a roundabout or at a junction where traffic is controlled. The minibus is a power-driven vehicle, and the junction marked with A-5 is an ordinary uncontrolled junction of equal roads without traffic lights and without a police officer - none of the exceptions applies, so the ban applies in full and particular caution does not cancel it. The only additional exception provided by the Act is for a vehicle signalling its intention to turn, provided that the overtaking driver does not enter the part of the roadway for the opposite direction - here the minibus is not signalling a turn. The reason for the ban: at a junction the vehicle in front of you may suddenly turn left, and someone coming from the right, who has right of way and does not expect a car in the left lane, may come out of a side street. You overtake only after the junction.

Legal basis: Art. 24 para. 7 point 3 and para. 9 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 5 para. 1 of the Regulation on road signs and signals