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When you approach a level crossing with a current railway provided with barriers or half-barriers and you observe that the 2 red lights operate intermittent alternating, you have the obligation to stop, the barriers being lowered, in the process of lowering or of raising.

The correct answer is: B

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The complete explanation of the sign --> Level crossing with a simple railway with half-barrier, provided with luminous signals warning the approach of the train

Obligations of the drivers of vehicles at the Railway, depending on its type - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - Level crossing with the railway

OUG* - Article 60

(1) Participants in traffic must show increased caution at the approach and crossing of the lines of current or industrial railway, as the case may be.
(2) At the level crossing with a current railway, provided with barriers or half-barriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that requires stopping, if these are in the process of lowering or in horizontal position and/or the sound and luminous signals which announce the approach of the train are in operation.
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Regulation** - Article 69

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(2) At the level crossing with the current railway provided with automatic signalling installations without barriers, the prohibition of road traffic is achieved, optically, by the operation of the devices with intermittent-alternative red lights and the extinguishing of the control signalling represented by intermittent white light and, acoustically, by the emission of intermittent sound signals.

Regulation** - Article 70

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(4) At the level crossing with the railway provided with automatic signalling installations with barriers, the signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is achieved in the conditions provided at art. 69 paragraph (2), as well as by the lowering in horizontal position of the half-barriers.

Regulation** - Article 71

(1) The signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is considered achieved even only in one of the following situations:
a) by the lighting of a single luminous unit of the device with intermittent-alternative red light;
b) by the operation of the sound system;
c) by the horizontal position of a single half-barrier.
(2) Road traffic is considered also prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or half-barriers are in the process of lowering or of raising.

Regulation** - Article 136

(1) At the level crossing with the current railway, the driver of vehicle is obliged to move with reduced speed and to make sure that from the left side or from the right side a railway vehicle does not approach.
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Regulation** - Article 137

(1) The driver of vehicle may cross the current railway provided with barriers or half-barriers, if these are raised and the luminous and sound signals do not operate, and the signal with intermittent white light with slow cadence is in operation.
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Regulation** - Article 138

(1) The driver of vehicle is obliged to stop when:
a) the barriers or half-barriers are lowered, in the process of lowering or of raising;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are in operation;
c) meets the sign "Level crossing with simple railway, without barriers", "Level crossing with double railway, without barriers" or "Stop".
(2) The vehicles must stop, in the order of arrival, in the place where there is maximum visibility over the railway without passing the signs provided at paragraph (1) letter c) or, as the case may be, before the marking for stopping or before the barriers or half-barriers, when these are closed, in the process of lowering or of raising.

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