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

The red colour signal of the traffic light obliges the drivers of vehicles to stop, regardless of their direction of travel. Also, this signal means stopping for pedestrians.

The correct answer is: B

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The meaning of all traffic light signals - Audio-Video Lesson -->> Road Traffic Code - The light or sound signals

OUG* - Article 30

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(3) The light signals for directing the traffic in intersections have the following meanings:
a) the green colour signal allows the passing;
b) the red colour signal prohibits the passing;
c) the yellow colour signal together with the red colour signal prohibit the passing.
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Regulation** - Article 47

(2) According to the number of lighting units, the traffic lights are:
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b) with two lighting units, for pedestrians and drivers of bicycles or electric scooters;
c) with three lighting units, for vehicles;
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Regulation** - Article 52

(1) The red colour signal prohibits the passing.
(2) At the red colour signal the vehicle must be stopped before the marking for stopping or, as the case may be, for pedestrian crossing, and in the absence of this, at the traffic light. If the traffic light is installed above or on the other side of the intersection, in the absence of the marking for stopping or for pedestrian crossing, the vehicle must be stopped before the edge of the carriageway of the road that is about to be intersected.
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Regulation** - Article 58

Article 58
(1) The light signals for pedestrians are green and red. These operate correlated with the signals for directing the traffic of vehicles.
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Regulation** - Article 59

(1) The green colour signal allows the passing.
(2) When the green colour signal begins to operate intermittently it means that the time allocated for crossing the road is running out and the red signal follows. In this case the pedestrian caught while crossing the road must hurry the crossing, and if the road is provided with a refuge or space prohibited to the traffic of vehicles, must wait on it for the appearance of the green colour signal.

Regulation** - Article 60

The green intermittent colour signal and the red colour signal prohibit pedestrians from starting to cross on the carriageway.

* 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)