Are you allowed in this situation to use the sound signal to urge on stationary vehicles?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the video you are driving along a street in a town, past fences and houses, and approaching vehicles waiting at traffic lights showing a red light - a delivery van with gas cylinders and a police car. You must not use the horn to hurry the waiting vehicles. The answer is: no.
The Road Traffic Act allows you to use the horn or a light signal only when it is necessary to warn of danger; it prohibits the misuse of these signals, and in a built-up area it prohibits using the horn at all, unless it is necessary because of immediate danger. Hurrying someone who is waiting is not warning of danger - it is misuse of the signal, for which the law provides a fine, and in town it also breaks the ban. The vehicles in front of you are waiting at a red light, so there is certainly nothing to hurry, and in other situations the reason for waiting is often not visible: a pedestrian, a police officer's signal, a collision. You wait patiently at a safe distance and move off when the line of traffic moves. The horn only makes sense when you need to warn someone - for example a child running onto the roadway - and not to let out your impatience.
Legal basis: Art. 29 para. 1 and para. 2 point 1 and 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)