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The motor vehicles that belong to the ambulance service and those that belong to the special units of the Romanian Intelligence Service are authorized to use the special blue light warning signals as well as the specific sound ones.
The special warning signals with BLUE light, together with the sound ones, oblige you to give priority, and to give priority you must reduce the travel speed and drive as close as possible to the edge of the road, in the direction of travel, more exactly as close as possible to the curb or to the right-side shoulder.
Therefore, when, on a public road, you encounter motor vehicles belonging to the Ambulance Service or the Romanian Intelligence Service, which use the light and sound warning means, you have the obligation to reduce the speed and free the lane on which you move or drive as close as possible to the curb or the right-side shoulder.
The correct answer is: C
OUG* - Article 32
(1) The special light warning signals are emitted intermittently by the lighting devices mounted on motor vehicles and have the following meanings:
a) the red light obliges the traffic participants to stop in the direction of travel as close as possible to the edge of the road;
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(2) Are authorized to use special light warning signals:
a) for the red light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police and firefighters;
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OUG* - Article 37
(1) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop immediately, on the shoulder or, in its absence, as close as possible to the edge of the road or the curb of the sidewalk, in the direction of travel, at the approach and passing of motor vehicles with priority traffic regime that have in operation the special red light warning means and sound ones.
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OUG* - Article 37
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(2) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to reduce the speed, to drive as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of travel and to give priority at the passing of motor vehicles with priority traffic regime that have in operation the special blue light warning means and sound ones.
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OUG* - Article 32
(1) The special light warning signals are emitted intermittently by the lighting devices mounted on motor vehicles and have the following meanings:
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b) the blue light obliges the traffic participants to give priority;
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(2) Are authorized to use special light warning signals:
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b) for the blue light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police, gendarmerie, border police, the Romanian Customs Authority, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the ambulance service or forensic medicine, civil protection, the public Salvamont and Salvaspeo services organized by the county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defense that accompany military columns, the special units of the Romanian Intelligence Service and the Protection and Guard Service, the National Administration of Penitentiaries within the Ministry of Justice, as well as the service motor vehicles of the prosecutors from the Public Ministry, when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have emergency character;
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(3) The motor vehicles provided in paragraph (2) letters a) and b) must be equipped also with special sound warning means.
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OUG* - Article 37
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(2) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to reduce the speed, to drive as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of travel and to give priority at the passing of motor vehicles with priority traffic regime that have in operation the special blue light warning means and sound ones.
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Regulation** - Article 130
The driver of a vehicle who approaches the entrance to an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime that has in operation the light and sound signals, has the obligation to give it priority.
* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Traffic Code Regulation)
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