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

In the situation in which you encounter a school bus that stops, regardless of whether it has or not the hazard warning lights on, you must move with increased attention because children are unpredictable and can cross without making sure.

The road traffic legislation in Romania does not oblige stopping in this situation. If the driver of the school bus activates the hazard warning lights, he does it to warn that the respective situation constitutes a danger for the traffic participants, and from the point of view of preventive driving it is recommended reducing the speed and increasing the attention.

The correct answer is: B

Recommendations:

Correct use of the lighting and signalling system --> Road Traffic Code - The technical condition of vehicles and the lighting and signalling system

Preventive driving course --> Preventive driving course

Regulation** - Article 114

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(5) The hazard warning lights are used in the following situations:
a) when the vehicle is involuntarily immobilized on the carriageway;
b) when the vehicle moves very slowly and/or constitutes itself a danger for the other traffic participants;
c) when the motor vehicle or the tram is towed.
(6) In the situations provided in paragraph (5), the drivers of motor vehicles and trams must activate the hazard warning lights, successively, in the order of stopping and in the case in which this maneuver is required by the blockage of the traffic on the direction of travel.
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** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Traffic Code Regulation)