Step 3 » GENERAL learning environment Category B (B, B1)

The intersection in the image is controlled with regulatory priority signs, under each sign there is installed an additional panel that indicates the direction of the priority road.

Tram 2 comes from a road without priority, encountering the sign “Give way”, and must give way to the car and tram 1, which come from the priority road.

The car and tram 1 come from the priority road, both encountering the sign “Priority road”. The car wants to continue to travel straight ahead on the priority road. Tram 1 wants to travel straight ahead, thus leaving the priority road. Considering that one of the two vehicles will leave the priority road, they will intersect their trajectories and will not be able to pass at the same time, thus creating an equality situation. In this situation the right‑hand priority rule will apply and tram 1 will give priority to the car, because it comes from the right side of tram 1.

Therefore, the first to pass through this intersection will be the car, and the order of passing through this intersection is the following: the car, followed by tram 1, and last will pass tram 2.

The correct answer is: C

Recommendations:

The complete explanations of the signs --> Priority road, Give way, Direction of the priority road 1 and Direction of the priority road 2

Priority of passage granted by signs - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Code - Priority of passage granted by signs

Priority of passage granted by law - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Code - Priority of passage granted by law

OUG* - Article 59

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(2) In the intersections, the drivers of the vehicles who turn left are obliged to give priority to the vehicles with which they intersect and which travel from the right side.
(3) In the intersections with traffic controlled by priority signs, the right-hand priority rule is respected only in the case in which two vehicles are going to meet, each entering the intersection from a road signalled with a sign having the same meaning of priority or of loss of priority.
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Regulation** - Article 129

(1) The vehicle that travels on a public road on which is installed one of the signs having the meaning: “Priority road”, “Intersection with a road without priority” or “Priority over oncoming traffic” has priority of passage.
(2) When two vehicles are going to meet in an intersection controlled by signs, coming from two public roads where signs with the same meaning are installed, the vehicle that comes from the right has priority.

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