When emerging from the property onto the road, are you obliged to exercise particular caution?
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Correct answer
YES
Explanation
In the video, you are driving out of a property along a concrete driveway, through an open gate, onto a road with cars on it. Entering a road from a property is joining traffic (włączanie się do ruchu), and this requires particular caution and giving way to everyone on the road. The answer is: yes.
The Road Traffic Act counts entering a road from a property, from a roadside facility or from an access road to it as joining traffic, and it requires the driver joining traffic to exercise particular caution and give way to other vehicles or road users. The hedge and the gate posts block your view, so you drive slowly up to the edge of the roadway, stop and look both ways - pedestrians and cyclists moving along the road also have right of way.
Legal basis: Art. 17 para. 1 point 1 and para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)