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

In the given situation we observe that the bus signalled the intention to start moving from the station provided with a bay. It must be known that the bus that leaves, attention, only the one that leaves and signals properly, from a station provided with a bay has priority ONLY over the vehicles that move behind it, and if the road has several lanes in the direction of travel the bus has priority only over the vehicles that move behind it on the first lane.

Therefore the blue car does not have the obligation to give priority to the bus, the bus being obliged to make sure and to give priority to the other participants in traffic, except those that move behind the bus. In the given situation, the car performs the overtaking maneuver correctly. The bus will be given priority only by the vehicles that move behind it.

The correct answer is: C

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Regulation** - Article 131

(1) At the approach of a station for public transport vehicles provided with a bay, from which the driver of such a vehicle signals the intention to leave, the driver of the vehicle that moves on the lane next to the shoulder or the curb is obliged to reduce speed and, if necessary, to stop to allow reintegration into traffic.
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Regulation** - Article 135

The driver of a vehicle is obliged to give priority also in the following situations:
f) when starting to move or when entering the public road coming from a property adjacent to it to the vehicle that moves on the public road, regardless of the direction of travel;

OUG* - Article 43

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(2) The driver of a vehicle that moves on the lane situated next to the edge of the carriageway must give priority to the vehicles that perform public transport of persons only when their drivers signal the intention to re-enter traffic from the stations provided with bays and have made sure that through their maneuver they do not endanger the safety of the other participants in traffic.

* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Code Regulation)