Are you obliged to comply with the instructions and signs given by a person performing road works upon the order of the road administrator?
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Correct answer
YES
Explanation
In the photo you are driving along a street in town where road works are being carried out: there are traffic cones and barriers next to an excavator, and a worker in an orange reflective vest is walking on the roadway next to the excavator and may give signals to drivers. You are obliged to follow the instructions and signals of a person carrying out road works on behalf of the road authority. The answer is: yes.
The Road Traffic Act lists, among the people authorised to give instructions and signals to road users, a police officer, a municipal police officer, a railway worker at a level crossing, and a person acting on behalf of the road authority or carrying out works on the road on behalf of or with the consent of the road authority; the instructions of such people take priority over traffic lights and signs, and road users must follow them. These people must be easy to recognise, for example by a reflective vest. You slow down, watch the worker's gestures and drive on or stop as he indicates.
Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 point 5 and para. 2 and Art. 5 para. 1 and 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)