Obligations of drivers who join the traffic

Article 72. Obligations of drivers who join the traffic.
1. The driver of a vehicle stopped or parked on the road or proceeding from an access road, from its service areas or an adjacent property, who intends to join the traffic must previously check, including following the indications of another person if necessary, that it can be done without danger to other users, giving way to other vehicles and considering their position, direction and speed, and will indicate using the appropriate obligatory signals. If the road being joined has an acceleration lane, the driver who joins must do so by adapting their speed to the road (LST Art 26).
2. Whenever a driver joins a public road from a private access, he must previously ensure it can be done without endangering anyone and to do so at a speed that allows him to stop in the act, giving way to vehicles on the public road in both directions.
3. Drivers who join the traffic will indicate the maneuver in the form described in Article 109.
4. On roads with an acceleration lane, drivers of vehicles who intend to use it to join the road must ensure at the beginning of the lane, that they can do so without endangering other users on the road, considering their position, direction and speed, stopping if necessary. Next, they will accelerate up to a speed adapted to join the traffic at the end of the acceleration lane.
5. Joining the traffic without giving way to other vehicles will be treated as a serious offence (LST Art 65.4.c)).