Intending to turn right in this situation, do you have the right of way over the pedestrian?
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Correct answer
YES
Explanation
In the video you are approaching a junction in a town where traffic is directed by a police officer standing sideways to you; you intend to turn right, and at the crossing over your roadway, just before the junction, a man is standing who wants to cross. In this situation you have right of way over the pedestrian. The answer is: yes.
The Regulation on road signs and signals states that the position in which the person directing traffic is standing sideways to approaching vehicles means permission for them to enter, and a position facing them or with the back to them means, for pedestrians, that they are not allowed to step onto the roadway. A police officer standing sideways to you is facing, or has his back to, a pedestrian crossing your path, so the pedestrian must wait. The Road Traffic Act gives the instructions of the person directing traffic precedence over the general rules. You turn, but you watch the pedestrian, because he may not have noticed the police officer.
Legal basis: § 108 para. 2 and 3 of the Regulation on road signs and signals; Art. 5 para. 1 and 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)