News / Poland's supreme administrative court rules against RHD cars [57]

Hi all. I'm from Ireland (RHD) and have been driving for almost ten years now. I've drove in France, Spain, Germany, USA and a few other places with LHD cars, but I have to say by far the worst experience ever has been driving in Poland, every time I drive here. Definitely at least ten years behind as far as safety on roads is concerned. Ireland, when I was growing up had a terrible death toll on the roads(drink driving, speeding, poor infrastructure, etc) It has improved a lot, thanks in no small way thanks to the E.U. grants for better roads, but mainly because peoples attitudes towards speed and alcohol have changed for the better. But still as in any country you have idiotic people who shouldn't be allowed to drive a lawn-mower never mind a machine that can reach 200kms/hr, killing innocent careful drivers. It doesn't matter which side of the road you drive on or with what type of vehicle, it depends on YOUR actions in that vehicle. It is an unfortunate truth, there will always be accidents, but it’s up to each country to try their hardest and their best, to enforce the safest possible road traffic laws so that people can travel as safely as possible on the roads they are charging their good people taxes to use. It is very depressing/frustrating knowing how many peoples lives are destroyed by such stupid actions of others, everywhere in the world it's true. But the roads and road usage in Poland, not the side of the controls in the vehicle, need to change. And probably the most important is peoples attitudes need to change drastically, sooner rather than later!!

News / Poland's supreme administrative court rules against RHD cars [57]

Hello everyone.

Has this law been brought in line with EU regulations as yet?

Basically, can I now register my RHD car, which I've owned for over six years, in Poland?

Thanks

News / Poland's supreme administrative court rules against RHD cars [57]

My friend has just sent me this link(in Polsh) from Motofakty in August.

As "Dziennik Polski" , Ministry of Transport has prepared a draft law allowing registration of vehicles with the steering wheel on the right side . Most likely, these provisions will come into force at the turn of 2012 and 2013 .

Photo . Shutterstock So far, right in our country prevented the registration of vehicles adapted for left-hand traffic . Successive transport ministers explained the lack of such opportunities security issues . This case , however, interested in European Commission, which found that the Polish provisions infringe EU law and threatened Poland severe financial penalty if he continues to refuse to register such vehicles.

I really think that this issue of safety can be easily resolved by allowing only the registered owner(minimum one year) of the car to use it, test all obvious things which can be changed superficially(light beams, mirrors), also prohibit reselling within a certain time period after registration, say two years, to reduce to the possibility of a huge influx of RHDs to Poland.

I feel just as safe and confident in control of a RHD as a LHD whilst driving on the continent, but maybe that's because I was raised in a country where RHD is the norm!