The motor vehicles that belong to the ambulance service are authorized to use the special warning signals with blue coloured lights as well as the specific sound ones. When you approach the entrance into an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime which has in operation the special warning means with blue coloured light together with the specific sound signal, you are obliged to give it priority to pass, regardless of whether this motor vehicle with priority traffic regime comes from a priority road or from a non-priority road and regardless of whether the intersection is or is not controlled.
The correct answer is: C
OUG* - Article 32
(1) The special warning signals with lights 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 to pass;
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(2) Are authorized to use special warning signals with lights:
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b) for the blue light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police, gendarmerie, border police, the Romanian Customs Authority, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the ambulance or forensic medicine service, civil protection, the public services Salvamont and Salvaspeo organized by the county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defense which escort 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 from the Public Ministry, when they move in intervention actions or in missions which have an 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 which have in operation the special warning means with blue coloured light and sound ones.
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OUG* - Article 61
(1) Only the motor vehicles provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letters a) and b) have priority traffic regime, when they move in intervention actions or in missions which have an emergency character. To have priority to pass, these motor vehicles must have in operation the light and sound signals.
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Regulation** - Article 130
The driver of the vehicle who approaches the entrance into an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime which has in operation the light and sound signals, is obliged to give it priority to pass.
* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Traffic Code Regulation)
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