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

For answer  A 

In this situation you must give priority to the ambulance, not only to reduce speed and to drive with attention.

For answer  B 

The road legislation obliges to respect the special warning light and sound signals with priority over the light signals of the electric traffic lights.

For answer  C 

The motor vehicles that belong to the ambulance service are authorized to use the special blue warning light signals as well as the specific sound ones. When you approach the entrance to an intersection simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime which has in operation the special blue warning light means together with the specific sound signal, you are obliged to give it priority, regardless of whether this motor vehicle with priority traffic regime comes from a priority road or from a non-priority road.

The correct answer is: C

Recommendations:

Special warning signals, light or sound  - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Code - Special warning signals, light or sound

The order in which the meaning of the road signalling is respected - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Code - The priority order between the different types of road signalling

For answer  A 

The road legislation does not provide anything in this respect.

For answer  B 

OUG* - Article 31

The participants in traffic must respect the traffic rules, the signals, indications and orders of the traffic police officer, as well as the meaning of the different types of road signalling means, in the following order of priority:
a) the signals, indications and orders of the traffic police officer;
b) the special warning light or sound signals of the motor vehicles, provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b);
c) the temporary signalling and/or the electronic signs, which modify the normal regime of traffic flow;
d) the light or sound signals;
e) the signs;
f) the markings;
g) the traffic rules.

For answer  C 

OUG* - Article 32

(1) The special warning light signals 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 participants in traffic 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, gendarmerie, 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 Defense that 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 urgent character;
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(3) The motor vehicles provided in paragraph (2) letter a) and b) must also be equipped 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 speed, to drive as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of movement and to give priority at the passing of the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime which have in operation the special blue light and sound warning means.
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OUG* - Article 61

(1) Only the motor vehicles provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b) have priority traffic regime when they move in intervention actions or in missions which have urgent character. In order to have priority, 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 to 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.

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