Are you allowed to use high-beam lights in this situation?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the video you are driving at night along a lit street in town; cars with their lights on are coming from the opposite direction, and ahead of you there is a D-1 sign and traffic lights. You are not allowed to use main beam (high beam). The answer is: no.
The Road Traffic Act allows you to use main beam from dusk to dawn only on unlit roads, provided it does not dazzle other drivers or pedestrians walking in a column, and requires you to switch to dipped headlights when a vehicle is approaching from the opposite direction, and also when the driver in front of you could be dazzled. Here both reasons for the ban apply at once: the street has street lamps, and cars are coming from the opposite direction. In town, main beam dazzles not only drivers but also pedestrians at crossings. You drive on dipped headlights, and if someone coming from the opposite direction dazzles you with main beam, you look at the right-hand edge of the roadway and slow down.
Legal basis: Art. 51 para. 3 point 1 and 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)