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

At pedestrian crossings you have the obligation to give priority of passage to the pedestrian who is crossing the public road, through a specially designated place, marked and properly signalled, or at the green colour of the traffic light intended for him when he is on your direction of travel.

For example:

• if the pedestrian is in the process of crossing your direction of travel, you have the obligation to give him priority of passage;
• if the pedestrian has already crossed your direction of travel and is in the process of crossing the opposite direction of travel, you have no obligation to give him priority, as long as he is not crossing on your direction of travel;
• if the pedestrian intends to start crossing from the opposite direction of travel, you have no obligation to give him priority, as long as he is not crossing on your direction of travel.

Nevertheless, we want to emphasize that in the case of the pedestrian who starts crossing from the opposite direction of travel, if he would be so close that he could reach your direction of travel before you pass the pedestrian marking, you have the obligation to give him priority.

More information about the obligations that the driver of the vehicle has at the pedestrian crossing, depending on its type and the number of lanes per direction, can be found here ->> Pedestrian crossing and the obligations of pedestrians.

The correct answer is: C

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Regulation** - Article 123

The driver of a vehicle is obliged to drive with a speed that does not exceed 30 km/h in the urban area or 50 km/h outside the urban area, in the following situations:
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h) at unsignalized pedestrian crossings, signalled by signs and markings, when the public road has at most one lane per direction, and the pedestrians on the sidewalk, in the immediate vicinity of the carriageway, intend to engage in crossing;
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Regulation** - Article 135

The driver of a vehicle is obliged to give priority of passage also in the following situations:
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h) to the pedestrian who is crossing the public road, through a specially designated place, marked and properly signalled or at the green colour of the traffic light intended for him, when he is on the direction of travel of the vehicle.

OUG* - Article 101

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(3) Constitutes a contravention and is sanctioned with the fine provided in class III of sanctions and with the application of the complementary contravention sanction of suspending the right to drive for a period of 60 days the committing by the driver of motor vehicle, agricultural or forestry tractor or tram of the following acts:
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e) failure to give priority of passage to pedestrians engaged in the regular crossing of the public road through the specially designated and signalled places, who are on the direction of travel of the motor vehicle, agricultural or forestry tractor or tram;
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* 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)