In the given scenario, is it permissible to overtake a vehicle in the adjacent lane just before a pedestrian crossing?

In the photo, you are driving in town in the left lane of a roadway with two lanes in your direction and approaching a pedestrian crossing marked with D-6 signs on a yellow background, with a red line before the zebra stripes; in the adjacent right lane there is a navy-blue car. Immediately before the crossing, you are not allowed to overtake the vehicle in the adjacent lane. 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. The crossing in the photo has no traffic lights, so the ban applies in full. The fact that both vehicles are in separate lanes changes nothing: overtaking means driving past a vehicle travelling in the same direction, regardless of whether you change lanes. The purpose of the ban is simple - the car in the adjacent lane hides part of the crossing from you, and hides you from the pedestrian; if the navy-blue car slows down to let a pedestrian step onto the crossing from the right, you would drive onto the crossing without seeing them. When approaching the crossing, you exercise particular caution, reduce speed and drive level with the vehicle next to you or behind it; you overtake only after the crossing.

Legal basis: Art. 26 para. 3 point 1 and para. 1 and Art. 2 point 28 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 47 para. 1 and 4 of the Regulation on road signs and signals