At what maximum speed limit can you drive, on the road past this sign?
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Correct answer
C. Up to 20 km/h.
Explanation
In the photo, at the entrance to a housing estate lane paved with red blocks, there is blue sign D-40 "residential area" - with silhouettes of a house, a car, a pedestrian and a child playing. In a residential area the speed limit is 20 km/h - answer C. The limits of 50 and 30 km/h apply, respectively, to built-up areas and to places marked with sign B-33, not to a residential area.
The Regulation on road signs and signals states that sign D-40 marks the entrance to a residential area and informs you that speed bumps and other features that force slow driving there might not be marked with warning signs, and the Road Traffic Act sets the speed limit in a residential area at 20 km/h. In this area, pedestrians may use the full width of the road and have right of way over vehicles, and parking is allowed only in designated places. So you drive very slowly, ready to stop for a child running out from behind a parked car.
Legal basis: Art. 20 para. 2 and Art. 11 para. 5 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 58 para. 1 and 2 of the Regulation on road signs and signals