Do you merge with traffic when you leave the residential area?
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Correct answer
YES
Explanation
In the video you are leaving an estate car park and a small street, at the end of which there is sign D-41 "end of residential area", and you enter a street. When you leave a residential area, you are joining traffic (włączanie się do ruchu). The answer is: yes.
The Road Traffic Act states that joining traffic takes place, among others, when entering a road from a residential area, and a driver joining traffic exercises particular caution and gives way to other vehicles and road users. Leaving the area is not an ordinary junction - the right-hand rule does not apply here, because you are the one who gives way to everyone. You stop before the edge of the roadway, look both ways and at the pavement, and enter only when you will not cut in front of anyone.
Legal basis: Art. 17 para. 1 point 1 and para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 58 para. 1 of the Regulation on road signs and signals