On roads located in an area marked with this visible sign, are you permitted to transport a child under the age of 10 on an electric scooter?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the photo you can see a small residential street and a blue sign D-40 "residential area". In a residential area you are not allowed to carry a child up to 10 years old on an electric scooter. The answer is: no.
The Road Traffic Act prohibits the rider of an electric scooter from carrying another person, an animal or a load - without any exceptions, also in a residential area. An electric scooter is a one-person vehicle: it has one small platform, weak brakes and narrow handlebars, and a second person, especially a child, changes its balance and makes safe braking and turning impossible. The question tries to confuse you by association with another rule: a child up to 10 years old riding a bicycle under the care of an adult is treated as a pedestrian and may ride on the pavement, and in a residential area pedestrians may use the whole width of the road. However, none of these rules allows you to put a child on a scooter. Sign D-40 mainly changes the rules on speed (20 km/h), pedestrian priority and parking - the bans concerning scooters apply in this zone just as everywhere else.
Legal basis: Art. 33a para. 3 point 2 and Art. 2 point 18 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 58 para. 1 of the Regulation on road signs and signals