Should you begin braking in the presented situation?
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Correct answer
YES
Explanation
In the video, you are driving along a street next to a school, marked with signs A-17 "children", and in the last seconds a child in a red T-shirt runs onto the roadway from the left after a ball. You must start braking immediately. The answer is: yes.
The Road Traffic Act requires the driver to be careful and to avoid any action that could cause danger, and the principle of limited trust (zasada ograniczonego zaufania) requires you to expect other people to break the rules when the circumstances suggest it - a child near a school is the best example. Sign A-17 warns of a place used especially often by children. In such a place you drive slowly, with your foot over the brake, because a child cannot judge the speed of a car and runs out without looking.
Legal basis: Art. 3 para. 1 and Art. 4 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 8 para. 2 of the Regulation on road signs and signals