When you encounter a traffic police officer who is facing you, having the right arm extended horizontally, you can continue moving, because your direction of travel does not intersect with the raised arm of the traffic police officer. In the situation described, those who come from behind the traffic police officer must stop, their direction of travel intersects with the raised arm of the traffic police officer.
This signal of the traffic police officer although it will be encountered, as a rule, at the intersections, can also be made in other places, not only at the intersections. It must be taken into account that in the questions in the quizzes, when the place where the traffic police officer is positioned is not specified, it is understood that he is positioned in the middle of the intersection.
The correct answer is: B
Regulation** - Article 88
(1) The signals of the police officer who directs the traffic have the following meanings:
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b) the arm or arms extended horizontally signify "stop" for all the traffic participants who, regardless of their direction of travel, move from the direction or the directions intersected by the arm or the arms extended. After giving this signal, the traffic police officer may lower the arm or the arms, the position meaning, also, "stop" for the traffic participants who come from the front or from the back;
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** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Regulation of the Road Traffic Code)
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