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

In this situation you encounter the sign “Level crossing with the current railway with barriers or semibarriers” which warns you that you are approaching a level crossing with a railway with barriers or semibarriers, and the “Additional panel with three lines” warns you that the distance to the railway is 150 meters.

Situation in which you have the obligation to reduce the speed of travel and, even if the barriers are raised you must make sure that from the left side or from the right side does not move a railway vehicle.

The correct answer is: A

Recommendations:

The complete explanation of the sign --> Level crossing with a railway with barriers or semibarriers

The complete explanation of the sign --> Additional panels for the level crossing with a railway

Level crossing with the railway - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - Level crossing with the railway

OUG* - Article 60

(1) Traffic participants must show increased prudence at the approach and the crossing of the lines of the current railway or industrial railway, as the case may be.
(2) At the level crossing with a current railway, provided with barriers or semibarriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that requires stopping, if these are in the process of descending or in horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals that announce the approach of the train are in operation.
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Regulation** - Article 71

(1) The signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is considered achieved even only in one of the following situations:
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c) by the horizontal position of a single semibarrier.
(2) Road traffic is also considered prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or semibarriers are in the process of descending or rising.

Regulation** - Article 136

(1) At the level crossing with the current railway, the driver of the vehicle is obliged to move with reduced speed and to make sure that from the left side or from the right side does not approach a railway vehicle.
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Regulation** - Article 137

(1) The driver of the vehicle may cross the current railway provided with barriers or semibarriers, if these are raised and the light and sound signals are not operating, and the signal with intermittent white light with slow cadence is in operation.
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OUG* - Article 138

(1) The driver of the vehicle is obliged to stop when:
a) the barriers or semibarriers are lowered, in the process of descending or rising;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are in operation;
c) he encounters the sign "Level crossing with simple railway, without barriers", "Level crossing with double railway, without barriers" or "Stop".
(2) The vehicles must stop, in the order of arrival, in the place where there is maximum visibility of the railway without passing the signs provided in paragraph (1) letter c) or, as the case may be, before the stopping marking or before the barriers or semibarriers, when these are closed, in the process of descending or rising.

* 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)