The motor vehicles that belong to the ambulance service are authorized to use the special warning signals with blue-colour light as well as the specific sound ones. When you approach the entry into an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime that has in operation the special warning means with blue-colour light together with the specific sound signal, you are obliged to give priority, regardless of whether this motor vehicle with priority traffic regime comes from a priority road or without priority.
The correct answer is: C
OUG* - Article 32
(1) The special warning signals of light 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 warning light signals:
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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, civil protection, the public Salvamont and Salvaspeo services organized by the county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defence that accompany military columns, the special units of the Romanian Intelligence Service and of 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 of 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 move as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of travel and to give priority at the passing of the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime that have in operation the special warning means with blue-colour light and sound.
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OUG* - Article 61
(1) Have priority traffic regime only the motor vehicles provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letters a) and b), when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have emergency character. In order to have priority, these motor vehicles must have the light and sound signals in operation.
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Regulation** - Article 130
The driver of a vehicle who approaches the entry into an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime that has in operation the light and sound signals, is obliged to give 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 (Regulation of the Road Traffic Code)
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