Are you merging with traffic in this situation?
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Correct answer
YES
Explanation
In the video you have stopped on an unpaved area next to a road outside a town, near a bus stop and U-3 guide boards on the bend, and you are driving from this area onto the asphalt roadway on which other cars are travelling. In this situation you are joining traffic (włączanie się do ruchu). The answer is: yes.
The Road Traffic Act states that joining traffic takes place when you start driving after parking and when you enter a hard-surfaced road from an unpaved road or the roadway from the shoulder, and a driver joining traffic exercises particular caution and gives way to other vehicles. You are entering the road just after a bend, so cars appear suddenly and travel fast. You stop before the edge of the roadway, look both ways and move off into a large gap, accelerating briskly.
Legal basis: Art. 17 para. 1 point 2 and 3 and para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)