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

In this situation you intend to enter an intersection in which traffic is controlled with regulatory priority signs and you encounter the sign “Priority road” accompanied by the additional panel that indicates to you the direction of the priority road.

The car encounters one of the signs “Give way” or “Stop” and must give priority to the vehicles coming from the priority road, namely the vehicle you are driving and the truck.

The vehicle you are driving and the truck come from the priority road, both encountering the sign “Priority road”. The truck wants to continue travelling in the direction of the priority road. You want to turn right, 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 equal situation. In this situation the rule of priority from the right will apply and you will give priority to the truck, because it comes from your right side.

Therefore, in the given situation you must allow the truck to pass, after which you can continue your movement.

INFO: How do we know which sign the one coming from the road in front has?! By observing the additional panel that indicates the direction of the priority road through the thickened line, we understand that the road in front and the road on the left are non‑priority roads, thus the vehicle coming from the road in front encounters a loss of priority sign, either “Give way” or “Stop”. Regardless of which of the two signs it encounters, it is obliged to give priority to those coming from the priority road. Therefore, even if the shape of the sign encountered by the driver of the vehicle coming from the front is not visible, with the help of the additional panel installed under the sign “Priority road” we can easily understand that it encounters a loss of priority sign.

The correct answer is: A

Recommendations:

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

Priority granted through signs - Audio‑Video lesson --> Traffic Code - Priority granted through signs

Priority granted by law - Audio‑Video lesson --> Traffic Code - Priority 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 rule of priority from the right is respected only when two vehicles are about to meet, each entering the intersection from a road signalled with a sign having the same meaning of priority or loss of priority.
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Regulation** - Article 129

(1) The vehicle travelling on a public road on which one of the signs having the meaning: "Priority road", "Intersection with a non‑priority road" or "Priority over oncoming traffic" is installed has priority.
(2) When two vehicles are about to meet in an intersection controlled by signs, coming from two public roads where signs with the same meaning are installed, the vehicle coming from the right has priority.

* 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)