Step 3 » GENERAL learning environment Category A (A, A1, A2, AM)

For answers  A  and  B 

It is prohibited the adoption of aggressive behavior when driving vehicles on public roads. The intentional driving of a vehicle by repeatedly accelerating the engine, likely to inconvenience persons located in the area of the public road, as well as the maneuver of starting the vehicle from standstill by the excessive spinning, in empty, of the driving wheels are considered to be aggressive behavior, the performance of these maneuvers on public roads being prohibited.

The adoption of aggressive behavior when driving vehicles on public roads is sanctioned with contravention fine, as follows:

• aggressive behavior plus a traffic accident without victims: the fine provided in the 3rd class of sanctions and the suspension of the right to drive for a period of 60 days;
• aggressive behavior without a traffic accident: the fine provided in the 2nd class of sanctions and the suspension of the right to drive for a period of 30 days.

For answer  C 

The road regulation provides the obligation to reduce the driving speed in certain situations, for example when encountering the traffic light of warning that has in operation a signal of yellow intermittent colour. The failure to reduce speed in the cases provided by the regulation IS NOT considered to be aggressive behavior but is sanctioned with the fine provided in the 3rd class of sanctions.

The correct answer is: A and B

Recommendations:

Aggressive driving - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - Obligations, prohibitions and aggressive driving

Reducing speed and maximum speed limits - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - Driving speed

For answers  A  and  B 

OUG* - Article 54^1

(1) Is prohibited the drivers of vehicles to adopt aggressive behavior when driving them on public roads.
(2) By aggressive behavior it is understood the performance, on the public road, by the driver of a vehicle, of one of the following maneuvers:
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c) the starting of the vehicle from standstill by the excessive spinning, in empty, of the driving wheels;
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i) the intentional driving of a vehicle by repeatedly accelerating the engine, likely to inconvenience persons located in the area of the public road.

For answer  C 

OUG* - Article 101

(1) Constitute contraventions and are sanctioned with the fine provided in the 3rd class of sanctions the following acts committed by natural persons:
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9. the failure to reduce speed in the cases provided by the regulation;
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* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Traffic Code)