In this situation, are you allowed to drive onto the roadway surface on the left side?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the video you are driving in the right lane of a two-lane roadway which is narrowing - a warning sign announces the narrowing, the left lane disappears, and its place is taken by an area of roadway covered with white diagonal hatching - marking P-21 "hatched area". You must not drive onto this area. The answer is: no.
The Regulation on road signs and signals states that marking P-21 "hatched area" means an area of the road where entering and stopping are prohibited. Hatching marks a part of the roadway that is not a traffic lane - it separates opposite directions, leads to a traffic island or protects the start of a turning lane - and driving onto it means driving outside the marked path, often straight into the lane for oncoming vehicles. You keep to your lane marked by lines, and if you want to change lanes, you do it where the lanes are separated by an ordinary broken line.
Legal basis: § 90 para. 5 of the Regulation on road signs and signals