The motor vehicles that belong to the ambulance service and those that belong to the special units of the Romanian Intelligence Service are authorized to use the special light warning signals of blue colour as well as the specific sound ones.
The special warning signals with BLUE light, together with the sound ones, oblige you to give priority, and in order to give priority you must reduce the travelling speed and drive as close as possible to the edge of the road, in the direction of travel, more precisely as close as possible to the curb or to the right-side shoulder.
Therefore, when, on a public road, you encounter motor vehicles belonging to the Ambulance Service or the Romanian Intelligence Service, which use the light and sound warning devices, you have the obligation to reduce the speed and to free the lane on which you are moving or to drive as close as possible to the curb or the right-side shoulder.
The correct answer is: C
OUG* - Article 32
(1) The special light warning signals are emitted intermittently by the lighting devices mounted on the motor vehicles and have the following meanings:
a) the red light obliges the traffic participants to stop in the direction of travel as close as possible to the edge of the road;
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(2) Are authorized to use special light warning signals:
a) for the red light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police and firefighters;
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OUG* - Article 37
(1) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop immediately, on the shoulder or, in its absence, as close as possible to the edge of the road or the curb of the sidewalk, in the direction of travel, at the approach and at the passing of motor vehicles with priority traffic regime which have in operation the special red light and sound warning devices.
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OUG* - Article 37
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(2) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to reduce the speed, to drive as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of travel 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 devices.
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OUG* - Article 32
(1) The special light warning signals are emitted intermittently by the lighting devices mounted on the motor vehicles and have the following meanings:
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b) the blue light obliges the traffic participants to give priority;
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(2) Are authorized to use special light warning 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 Defence which accompany military convoys, 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 vehicles of the prosecutors from the Public Ministry, when they travel in intervention actions or in missions that have an emergency character;
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(3) The motor vehicles provided in paragraph (2) letters a) and b) must also be equipped with special sound warning devices.
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OUG* - Article 37
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(2) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to reduce the speed, to drive as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of travel 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 devices.
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Regulation** - Article 130
The driver of a vehicle who approaches the entrance into an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime which has in operation the light and sound signals, has the obligation to give it priority.
* 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)
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