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

The red colour signal of the traffic light prohibits the crossing of all road users. However, the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime may enter the intersection when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have emergency character and have the special light and sound signals in operation may break the traffic rules, except those that regulate the level crossing with the current railway and have the obligation to respect also the signals, the indications and the orders of the traffic police officer.

Therefore, these are allowed to enter the intersection at the red colour of the traffic light.

The correct answer is: A

Recommendations:

The meaning of all traffic light signals - Audio-Video Lesson -->> Road Traffic Code - Light or sound signals

The order in which the meaning of road signalling is respected - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - The priority order between the different types of road signalling

The special warning signals, light or sound  - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - The special warning signals, light or sound

Regulation** - Article 52

(1) The red colour signal prohibits the crossing.
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OUG* - Article 61

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(2) The drivers of the motor vehicles belonging to the institutions provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b) may break the legal speed limit or other traffic rules, except those that regulate the level crossing with the current railway, when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have emergency character.
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OUG* - Article 62

(1) At the entry in the intersections where the red light of the traffic light is in operation or the signs require the giving of priority, the drivers of the motor vehicles provided in art. 61 paragraph (1) must reduce the speed and drive with increased attention for the avoidance of producing traffic accidents, otherwise they shall be liable according to the law.
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OUG* - Article 32

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(2) Are authorized to use special warning light signals:
a) for the red light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police and firefighters;
b) for the blue light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police, the gendarmerie, the border police, the Romanian Customs Authority, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the ambulance service or forensic medicine, the civil protection, the public Salvamont and Salvaspeo services organized by the county councils and the local councils, the Ministry of National Defence that escort military columns, the special units of the Romanian Intelligence Service and of the Protection and Guard Service, the National Administration of Penitentiaries from 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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* OUG = 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)