The sign in the image is called "Level crossing with a railway with barriers or semi‑barriers" and is installed, outside the urban area at 150 m from the railway, and in the urban area at 50 m from the railway and warns that we are approaching a level crossing with a railway provided with barriers. The additional panel informs us that the level crossing is provided with automatic light signalling installation.
In this case, the barriers being lowered, you are obliged to stop before the barriers. You wait for the raising of the barriers and the white light signal with slow cadence in order to be able to pass.
The correct answer is: A
OUG* - Article 60
(1) The participants in traffic must show increased prudence when approaching and crossing the lines of current or industrial railway, as the case may be.
(2) At the level crossing with a current railway, provided with barriers or semi‑barriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that obliges to stop, if these are in the process of lowering or in horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals that announce the approach of the train are in operation.
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Regulation** - Article 69
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(2) At the level crossing with the current railway provided with automatic signalling installation without barriers, the prohibition of road traffic is carried out, visually, by the operation of the devices with intermittent‑alternative red lights and the extinguishing of the control signalling represented by intermittent white light and, acoustically, by the emission of intermittent sound signals.
Regulation** - Article 70
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(4) At the level crossing with the railway provided with automatic signalling installation with barriers, the signalling of prohibition of road traffic is carried out under the conditions provided in art. 69 paragraph (2), as well as by the lowering in horizontal position of the semi‑barriers.
Regulation** - Article 71
(1) The signalling of prohibition of road traffic is considered achieved even in only one of the following situations:
a) by the lighting of a single light unit of the device with intermittent‑alternative red light;
b) by the operation of the sound system;
c) by the horizontal position of a single semi‑barrier.
(2) The road traffic is also considered prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or semi‑barriers are in the process of lowering or raising.
Regulation** - Article 136
(1) At the level crossing with the current railway, the driver of the vehicle is obliged to drive with reduced speed and to make sure that from the left side or from the right side no railway vehicle is approaching.
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Regulation** - Article 137
(1) The driver of the vehicle may cross the current railway provided with barriers or semi‑barriers, if these are raised and the light and sound signals are not operating, and the signal with intermittent white light with slow cadence is operating.
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Regulation** - Article 138
(1) The driver of the vehicle is obliged to stop when:
a) the barriers or semi‑barriers are lowered, in the process of lowering or raising;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are in operation;
c) encounters the sign "Level crossing with simple railway, without barriers", "Level crossing with double railway, without barriers" or "Stop".
(2) The vehicles must stop, in the order of arrival, in the place where there is maximum visibility over the railway without passing the signs provided in paragraph (1) letter c) or, as the case may be, before the stop marking or before the barriers or semi‑barriers, when these are closed, in the process of lowering or raising.
* 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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