Do you have to yield the right of way only to vehicles approaching from the right in this situation?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the video you are driving along a city street and approaching a junction marked with sign A-7 "give way"; a dark car is coming from the right and driving through the junction. At a junction with sign A-7 you give way to all vehicles travelling on the priority road - from the left and from the right - not only to those coming from the right. The answer is: no.
The Regulation on road signs and signals provides that sign A-7 warns of a junction with a priority road, and its name says directly what you must do - the Road Traffic Act requires you to obey road signs even when the rules require a different way of behaving. The right-hand rule, that is, giving way only to those coming from the right, decides between vehicles of equal status, for example at an uncontrolled junction of equal roads; here sign A-7 makes you give way to everyone travelling on the road you are crossing. You slow down, look both ways and let the dark car from the right pass, as well as every other vehicle on that road, including from the left.
Legal basis: § 5 para. 5 of the Regulation on road signs and signals; Art. 5 para. 1 and Art. 25 para. 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)