Signalling with the low‑beam headlights is not effective, because the students who walk in the same direction as the motor vehicle have their backs turned towards it and will not notice the lights. To make your presence felt, it is necessary to use the audible signalling (the horn), but this must be done from a distance greater than 25 metres from the students, because the legislation forbids the use of the horn at a smaller distance.
When you drive past a group of students who move in the same direction as you on a national road in a rural locality, preventive conduct involves reducing the speed, increasing attention and passing around the group carefully, only if the manoeuvre can be carried out in safe conditions. If it is not possible, you must wait until the optimal conditions are created to perform the passing safely.
Although this question does not refer to the presence of school patrols, it must be reminded that you are obliged to respect the signals of the members of the school traffic patrols, who may request stopping in the immediate vicinity of educational institutions.
The students may not have anywhere else to walk, especially in rural localities where, usually, there are no sidewalks, this being the reason they move on the carriageway. Thus, the audible warning (the horn) MUST NOT be used with the purpose of moving the students away from the carriageway and must be used from a distance greater than 25 metres from the students, because the legislation forbids the use of the horn at a smaller distance.
The correct answer is: B
The road legislation does not provide anything in this regard.
Regulation** - Article 2
For the purpose of this regulation, the terms and expressions below have the following meaning:
[...]
4. organised group - two or more persons who have a leader and move or wait on public roads based on an authorisation issued by the administrator of the public road with the approval of the traffic police;
[...]
OUG* - Article 29
[...]
(2) Traffic participants are obliged to respect also the signals of the border police officers, of the traffic guides of the Ministry of National Defence, of the personnel of the mobile teams of the Romanian Customs Authority, as well as of the fiscal bodies of the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, in the exercise of their service duties, of the agents of the railways, of the persons designated for directing the traffic on the road sectors on which rehabilitation works are carried out, of the members of the school traffic patrols who act in the immediate vicinity of educational institutions, as well as of blind persons, according to the provisions of the regulation.
Regulation** - Article 89
(1) Stopping the traffic participants is mandatory also at the signals given by:
[...]
e) the members of the school traffic patrols, at the pedestrian crossings near the educational institutions;
[...]
Regulation** - Article 123
The driver of a vehicle is obliged to drive with a speed that does not exceed 30 km/h in localities or 50 km/h outside localities, in the following situations:
[...]
c) when passing by organised groups, military columns or corteges, whether they are moving or waiting on the carriageway of roads with a single traffic lane per direction;
[...]
Regulation** - Article 112
The drivers of vehicles signal with the luminous warning means, audible or with the arm, as the case may be, before performing any manoeuvre or to avoid an immediate danger.
Regulation** - Article 113
(1) The audible warning means must be used from a distance of at least 25 m from those to whom they are addressed, for a period of time that ensures the perception of the signal and without determining them to perform manoeuvres that can endanger traffic safety.
[...]
* 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)
Leave a comment