Chapter 5 - part 1 - Priority and giving priority

Reference articles from the legislation in force

OUG = EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 (Road Traffic Code)
Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 (Road Traffic Code Regulation)

OUG - Article 6

For the purposes of this emergency ordinance, the expressions and terms below have the following meaning:

1. giving priority - the obligation of any traffic participant not to continue their travel or not to perform any other maneuver if by these they oblige the other traffic participants who have the right of way to change suddenly their direction or travel speed or to stop;

26. right of way - the right of a traffic participant to pass before the other traffic participants with whom they intersect, in accordance with the legal provisions regarding traffic on public roads;

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The right of way is the right of a traffic participant to pass before the other traffic participants when their trajectories meet or when they cannot pass at the same time (art. 6 pt. 26 of the OUG).

Giving priority (losing priority) is the obligation of any traffic participant not to continue their travel or not to perform any other maneuver if by these they oblige the other traffic participants who have the right of way to change suddenly their direction or travel speed or to stop (art. 6 pt. 1 of the OUG). It is the opposite situation of priority, because when two vehicles that intersect their trajectories meet or when they cannot pass both at the same time, one has priority and the other loses priority.

In the application of the rules of priority and giving priority, no distinction is made between types of vehicles. If we must give the right of way, this will be done regardless of whether a motor vehicle or a simple vehicle, such as: a bicycle, an animal-drawn vehicle, or a vehicle pulled or pushed by hand, is circulating on the priority road.

The rules of priority and losing priority are very important and must be perfectly known from a theoretical point of view, in order to be applied correctly in practice; their non-observance is one of the main factors that lead to the occurrence of traffic accidents.