When emerging from the dirt road onto the hard surface road, are you obliged to exercise particular caution?
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Correct answer
YES
Explanation
In the video, you are driving along a dirt field track between meadows and you approach a tarmac road with place name signs. Entering a hard-surfaced road from a dirt road is joining traffic (włączanie się do ruchu), so you exercise particular caution and give way to vehicles on the tarmac road. The answer is: yes.
The Road Traffic Act lists entering a road from a field, or entering a hard-surfaced road from a dirt road, among the cases of joining traffic, and it requires you in that case to exercise particular caution and give way to other vehicles or road users. There are no signs here, but the right-hand rule does not apply either - even a vehicle approaching from the left has right of way over you. You stop and move off when the road is clear.
Legal basis: Art. 17 para. 1 point 2 and para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)