When the traffic takes place on a road with two or more traffic lanes on the direction of travel, such as a motorway with three traffic lanes on the direction of travel, these lanes are used by the drivers of vehicles depending on the traffic intensity and speed of travel, these having the obligation to return to the first lane whenever this is possible. Therefore, when performing overtaking of other vehicles on the motorway, you are permitted the use of the lane next to the axis of the road, if the other lanes in the direction of travel are occupied.
When you drive on a motorway, you can use the lane next to the axis of the road only if the other lanes in the direction of travel are occupied, and you have the obligation to return to the first lane whenever this is possible, this obligation being valid even when you travel with the maximum permitted speed. For example, if the traffic is free on a motorway with three traffic lanes on the direction of travel, lane 1 or 2 being unoccupied, you are NOT permitted to travel on the lane next to the axis of the road (lane 3), even if you travel with the maximum permitted speed.
Regardless of whether you are or are not preceded by other vehicles, the travel on lanes will be made as in the explanation from answer A.
The correct answer is: A
OUG* - Article 45
(1) Overtaking is the maneuver through which a vehicle passes ahead of another vehicle or past an obstacle, located on the same direction of travel, by changing the direction of travel and leaving the traffic lane or the line of vehicles in which it was initially.
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(4) It does not constitute overtaking, in the sense of paragraph (1), the situation in which a vehicle travels faster on one of the lanes than the vehicles that travel on another lane in the same direction of travel.
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OUG* - Article 42
When the traffic takes place on two or more lanes on the direction of travel, these are used by the drivers of vehicles depending on the traffic intensity and speed of travel, having the obligation to return to the first lane whenever this is possible, if this is not intended for slow vehicles or public passenger transport.
Regulation** - Article 101
When the road has two or more lanes on the direction of travel, the vehicles are driven on the lane located next to the shoulder or curb. The other lanes can be used successively, from right to left, if the traffic lane used is occupied, with the obligation to return to the lane on the right when this is possible.
* 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)
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