When you are approaching a level crossing with a current railway and you notice that the half‑barriers are in the process of lowering, you are obliged to stop in front of the half‑barrier. It must be known that when the level crossing with the current railway is equipped with half‑barriers, usually it is also equipped with an automatic installation warning of the train’s approach, and when the train approaches, besides the automatic closing of the half‑barriers, the intermittent‑alternative red lights together with the intermittent sound signals are automatically activated.
The correct answer is: B
OUG* - Article 60
(1) Participants in traffic must show increased caution when approaching and crossing the lines of the current or industrial railway, as the case may be.
(2) At the level crossing with a current railway, equipped with barriers or half‑barriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that obliges to stop, if these are in the process of lowering or in a horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals that announce the train’s approach are in operation.
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Regulation** - Article 69
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(2) At the level crossing with the current railway equipped with automatic signalling installations without barriers, the prohibition of road traffic is carried out, optically, by the functioning 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 equipped with automatic signalling installations with barriers, the signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is carried out under the conditions provided in 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 light unit of the device with intermittent‑alternative red light;
b) by the functioning of the sound system;
c) by the horizontal position of a single half‑barrier.
(2) Road traffic is also considered prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or half‑barriers are in the process of lowering or lifting.
Regulation** - Article 136
(1) At the level crossing with the current railway, the driver of a vehicle is obliged to drive with reduced speed and to make sure that from the left side or from the right side no railway vehicle is approaching.
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Regulation** - Article 137
(1) The driver of a vehicle may cross the current railway equipped with barriers or half‑barriers, if these are raised and the light and sound signals are not operating, and the signal with intermittent white light with slow cadence is operating.
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Regulation** - Article 138
(1) The driver of a vehicle is obliged to stop when:
a) the barriers or half‑barriers are lowered, in the process of lowering or lifting;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are operating;
c) he encounters 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 in paragraph (1) letter c) or, as the case may be, before the stop marking or before the barriers or half‑barriers, when these are closed, in the process of lowering or lifting.
* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Code Regulation)
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