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

Pedestrians have certain obligations and prohibitions when they are engaged in crossing the public road, such as, they are obliged to cross the public road only through specially designated and established places and they are prohibited from stopping or turning around on pedestrian crossings that are not provided with traffic lights.

Even with these obligations on the part of pedestrians, in the case in which you observe a few children who are crossing the street while playing with a ball, you must reduce your speed and increase your attention, because the behavior of children can be unpredictable.

The correct answer is: A

Recommendations:

Course of preventive driving --> Course of preventive driving

The pedestrian crossing and the obligations of pedestrians - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - The pedestrian crossing and the obligations of pedestrians

The obligations and prohibitions of the drivers of vehicles during driving - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - Obligations, prohibitions and aggressive driving

Regulation** - Article 135

The driver of a vehicle is obliged to give priority 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 signalled accordingly or at the green colour of the traffic light intended for him, when he is on the driving direction of the vehicle.

Regulation** - Article 167

(1) Is prohibited the pedestrians and persons assimilated to them:
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c) to prolong the time of crossing the public road, to stop or to turn around on pedestrian crossings that are not provided with traffic lights;
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OUG* - Article 72

(1) Pedestrians are obliged to move only on the sidewalk, and in its absence, on the shoulder on the left side of the road, in their direction of travel. When also the shoulder is missing, pedestrians are obliged to walk as close as possible to the edge on the left side of the carriageway, in their direction of travel.
(2) Pedestrians have priority over the drivers of vehicles only when they are engaged in crossing public roads through specially designated, marked and signalled places, or at the green colour of the traffic light intended for pedestrians.
(3) Crossing of the public road by pedestrians is done perpendicular to its axis, only through the specially designated and signalled places, and in their absence, in urban areas, at the corner of the street, only after they have made sure that they can do it without danger for them and for the other participants in traffic.
(4) Pedestrians caught and injured as a result of crossing through forbidden places, at the red colour of the traffic light intended for them, or of not respecting other obligations established by the traffic rules bear the entire responsibility of their injury, in the conditions in which the driver of the respective vehicle has respected the legal provisions regarding driving through that sector.
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* OUG = EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Regulation of the Road Traffic Code)