Chapter 5 - part 2 - Priority of passage - granted by signs

Reference articles from the legislation in force

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

OUG - Article 57

(4) In the intersections with roundabout, signalled as such, the vehicles that move inside them have priority compared to those that are about to enter the intersection.

Regulation - Article 129

(1) The vehicle that moves on a public road on which is installed one of the signs having the meaning: "Priority road", "Intersection with a non-priority road" or "Priority over oncoming traffic" has priority of passage.

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Text version Chapter 5 - part 2 - Priority of passage - granted by signs

PRIORITY OF PASSAGE

The priority of passage is divided into two categories:    

• Priority of passage granted by signs:

•     Priority of passage granted by law:

Priority of passage granted by signs

The priority of passage granted by signs is when certain signs are established which, if we encounter them, we have priority of passage, and other signs which, if we encounter them, we do not have priority of passage.

1. PRIORITY OF THE PRIORITY ROAD.

This type of priority is granted by regulatory priority signs, the vehicles that encounter them have or lose priority, depending on the signs encountered.

The signs that grant priority of passage to those who encounter them are:

• “Priority road”, this sign is installed at the beginning of the priority road or before the intersections with a non-priority road and has the role of announcing the driver that he has priority in the intersection into which he will enter (art. 129 paragraph 1 of the Regulation). The roads that intersect the priority road will have installed one of the signs “Stop” or “Give way”.

* When the priority road changes its direction of travel in an intersection, the priority road is obligatorily confirmed by installing under each sign, both under the priority signs and under the give-way signs, additional panels that show the direction of the priority road.

• “Intersection with a non-priority road”, this sign is installed outside built-up areas, on priority roads, at 100-200 m from the intersection with a non-priority road and has the role of confirming the priority of the one who encounters this sign.

2. PRIORITY OF THE NARROWED ROAD.

This applies on the sections of narrowed road, where two vehicles do not have room to move one beside the other, regardless of the nature of the narrowing, whether it is permanent (for example on bridges) or temporary (for example in the area of road works). The regulation is done by installing at the ends of the narrowed road section the signs: “Priority over oncoming traffic” and “Priority for oncoming traffic”.

• “Priority over oncoming traffic”, when encountering this sign, the driver of the motor vehicle has priority over all motor vehicles that move from the opposite direction (art. 129 paragraph 1 of the Regulation).​

• “Priority for oncoming traffic”, when encountering this sign, the driver of the motor vehicle loses priority over all motor vehicles that move from the opposite direction.

* If under the sign “Priority for oncoming traffic” we encounter the additional panel “Category of motor vehicles that must respect the meaning of the sign” and the vehicle we drive is not part of the respective category, we are not obliged to give priority of passage.

3. PRIORITY OF THE ROAD WITH ROUNDABOUT.

In the intersections with roundabout, signalled as such, the vehicles that move inside them have priority compared to those that are about to enter the intersection (art. 57 paragraph 4 of OUG).