When you encounter a traffic police officer who is facing you, having the right arm extended horizontally, you can continue the movement, because your direction of travel does not intersect with the raised arm of the traffic police officer. In the situation described, those who come from behind the traffic police officer must stop, their direction of travel intersects with his raised arm.
This signal of the traffic police officer although will be encountered, as a rule, in intersections, can also be performed in other places, not only in intersections. It must be taken into account that in the questions from the tests, when the place where the traffic police officer is positioned is not specified, it is understood that he is positioned in the middle of the intersection.
The correct answer is: B
Regulation** - Article 88
(1) The signals of the traffic police officer who directs the traffic have the following meanings:
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b) the arm or the arms extended horizontally signify "stop" for all participants in traffic who, regardless of their direction of travel, move from the direction or the directions intersected by the arm or the arms extended. After giving this signal, the traffic police officer can lower the arm or the arms, the position meaning, as well, "stop" for the participants in traffic who come from the front or from behind;
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** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (The Road Traffic Code Regulation)
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