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When you encounter motor vehicles with a priority traffic regime that have in operation the special red light warning devices and the sound ones, you have the obligation to stop immediately the motor vehicle 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. After they pass, you may continue your travel.

We must know that these motor vehicles with a priority traffic regime are allowed to use the light signals without being accompanied by the sound ones, depending on the nature of the mission or the traffic conditions, a situation in which the respective motor vehicle does not have a priority traffic regime. But the reverse situation, to use only the sound signals without being accompanied by the light ones, is not allowed.

We recommend that you also consult the articles from the updated road legislation that are found a little below.

The correct answer is: A

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For answer A

OUG* - Article 32

(1) The special light warning signals are emitted intermittently by the lighting devices mounted on 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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(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

(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, when approaching and passing the motor vehicles with a priority traffic regime that have in operation the special red light warning devices and the sound ones.
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Regulation** - Article 130

The driver of a vehicle who approaches the entrance to an intersection simultaneously with a motor vehicle with a priority traffic regime that has in operation the light and sound signals is obliged to give priority to it.

For answer B

OUG* - Article 32

(1) The special light warning signals are emitted intermittently by the lighting devices mounted on 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, the gendarmerie, the border police, the Romanian Customs Authority, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the ambulance service or forensic medicine, civil protection, the public mountain rescue and cave rescue services organized by the county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defence which escort military columns, 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 motor vehicles of the prosecutors from the Public Ministry, when they travel in intervention actions or in missions that have an emergency character;

OUG* - Article 37

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(2) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to reduce speed, to drive as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of travel and to give priority when passing the motor vehicles with a priority traffic regime that have in operation the special blue light warning devices and the sound ones.
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For answer C

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, when approaching and passing the motor vehicles with a priority traffic regime that have in operation the special red light warning devices and the sound ones.
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* OUG = EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Code Regulation)