Must a motorcycle be equipped with emergency lights?
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Correct answer
C. No, but this is admissible.
Explanation
In the photo there is a touring motorcycle with a fairing and indicators. Hazard warning lights are not compulsory equipment on a motorcycle, but you may fit them - answer C.
The Regulation on the technical conditions of vehicles lists hazard warning lights among the compulsory lights of a motor vehicle, but with the exception of a motorcycle; a separate provision allows a motorcycle to be equipped with hazard warning lights. So the manufacturer may fit them and many newer motorcycles have them, but not having them is not a defect. This has practical effects: when a motorcycle without hazard warning lights breaks down on the road, the Road Traffic Act requires you to switch on the sidelights (position lights) instead of hazard warning lights and to place a warning triangle - always outside a built-up area and on a motorway, and, if there are no hazard warning lights, also in town. Answer B is wrong - nothing forbids fitting them, and answer A is wrong, because the obligation applies to motor vehicles other than a motorcycle and to trailers.
Legal basis: § 12 para. 1 point 12 and para. 3 point 11 of the Regulation on the technical conditions of vehicles and the scope of their necessary equipment; Art. 50 para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)