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

The intersection in the image is one in which the traffic is directed with regulatory priority signs. Even if only on the non‑priority road regulatory priority signs are installed, namely the sign “Give way” and the sign “Stop”, this intersection is one with directed traffic.

We draw attention that such intersections in which the regulatory priority signs are installed only on the road or, as the case may be, on the non‑priority roads, are also encountered in reality, these being intersections with directed traffic.

The green car and the red car come from non‑priority roads, encountering the sign “Give way” and the sign “Stop”, and are obliged to give priority to the vehicles that come from the priority road, namely the truck, which will pass first through this intersection.

The green car and the red car have equal rights to pass through this intersection because they encounter signs that have the same meaning of loss of priority, namely the sign “Give way” and the sign “Stop”, but because the red car intends to turn left, it will give priority to the green car since, when turning left, the green car comes from its right side.

The passing order is the following: the truck, followed by the green car, and the last to pass through the intersection will be the red car. Therefore, the 2nd to pass through this intersection will be the green car.

The correct answer is: B

Recommendations:

The complete explanations of the signs --> Give way and Stop

The behaviour of the driver of the vehicle at the signs Give way and Stop - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - The priority given through signs

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 move from the right side.
(3) In the intersections with traffic directed by priority signs, the right‑hand priority rule 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 that moves 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 directed 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 (Road Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Traffic Code Regulation)