If you park your car at night on an unlit road, are you obliged to use position or parking lights?

In the photo, you are driving at night on an unlit road behind a dark car, and a lorry with its lights on is coming from the opposite direction. When your vehicle is parked at night on an unlit roadway, you are obliged to use sidelights (position lights) or parking lights. The answer is: yes.

The Road Traffic Act requires the driver of a power-driven vehicle, in conditions of insufficient visibility, during a stop that is not caused by traffic conditions and during parking, to use front and rear sidelights or parking lights; all lights may be switched off only in a lit place or off the roadway and the shoulder. An unlit car on a dark road can be seen only from a few dozen metres away, when it is too late to brake. So you leave the sidelights on, or, if you want to save the battery - the parking lights on the roadway side.

Legal basis: Art. 52 para. 1 and 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)