If you stop a car on a sidewalk, do you have to ensure that pedestrians have a passage of at least 2.5 m wide?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the video you are driving along a wide street in the town centre next to a pavement on which cars are parked, near signs D-3 and D-18. When stopping a vehicle on the pavement, you do not have to leave pedestrians a passage at least 2.5 m wide. The answer is: no.
The Road Traffic Act allows a car with a maximum permissible mass of up to 2.5 t to stop or park on a footway (droga dla pieszych) on condition that the width of the pavement left for pedestrians is not less than 1.5 m and this does not obstruct their movement, and that stopping or parking is not prohibited on that section. So the required minimum is 1.5 m, not 2.5 m - the number 2.5 refers to the mass of the vehicle, not to the width of the passage, and it is easy to confuse them. When parking, you position the car so that at least one and a half metres remain from its side to the wall or fence.
Legal basis: Art. 47 para. 1 point 2 and para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)