Is the presented U-turn manoeuvre prohibited in these road conditions?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the video you reach the end of a street next to a construction site; it is daytime and dry, apart from the cars parked on the right there are no other moving vehicles, and a double solid line ends at the end of the roadway. You make a U-turn to the left at the end of the street and go back in the direction you came from. This way of making a U-turn is not prohibited in these conditions. The answer is: no.
The Road Traffic Act prohibits U-turns in conditions where this could endanger road safety or obstruct traffic, and also in a tunnel, on a bridge, on a flyover, on a one-way road, on a motorway and on an expressway except at a junction. None of these prohibitions applies here: visibility is good, the roadway is empty, and the double solid line, which you must not cross, ends before the place of the manoeuvre. When making the U-turn, you switch on your left indicator, make sure that nobody is coming from either direction, and carry out the manoeuvre smoothly, without stopping across the roadway.
Legal basis: Art. 22 para. 6 point 1 and 4 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 86 para. 5 of the Regulation on road signs and signals