In this scenario, can you overtake an electric scooter?

In the video, you are driving along a residential street near a school behind a person on an electric scooter, who is approaching a pedestrian crossing marked with sign D-6 with plate T-27, on a red surface, without traffic lights. You cannot overtake the scooter. The answer is: no.

The Road Traffic Act prohibits the driver of a vehicle from overtaking a vehicle at a pedestrian crossing and immediately before it, except at a crossing where traffic is controlled. An electric scooter is a vehicle, and the crossing has no traffic lights, so the ban applies in full. Plate T-27 indicates that the crossing is used especially often by children - this is a crossing near a school, where a child may run out from behind a post without looking, and the scooter being overtaken would hide the child from you, and you from the child. On top of that, there is the requirement to keep at least 1 m from the scooter, which usually cannot be met on a narrow street near a crossing. When approaching the crossing, you exercise particular caution and reduce speed; you stay behind the scooter, drive over the crossing behind it and overtake only after the crossing, when there is space and visibility.

Legal basis: Art. 26 para. 3 point 1 and para. 1 and Art. 24 para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 47 para. 1, 4 and 5 of the Regulation on road signs and signals