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When you approach a level crossing with a railway provided with barriers and the sound signals and the light signals of red colour are in function, you are warned that a rail vehicle is approaching, with the barriers to close automatically. In this situation you have the obligation to reduce the speed and to stop in front of the barrier.
The correct answer is: B
OUG* - Article 60
(1) The traffic participants must show increased prudence at the approach and crossing of 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 half-barriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that obliges to stop, if these are in the course of descending or in horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals which announce the approach of the train are in function.
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Regulation** - Article 69
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(2) At the level crossing with the current railway provided with automatic signalling installations without barriers, the prohibition of road traffic is realised, optically, by the functioning of the devices with intermittent-alternative red lights and the extinction of the control signalling represented by intermittent white light and, acoustically, by the emitting of intermittent sound signals.
Regulation** - Article 70
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(4) At the level crossing with the railway provided with automatic signalling installations with barriers, the signalling of prohibition of road traffic is realised in the conditions provided at art. 69 paragraph (2), as well as by the descending in horizontal position of the half-barriers.
Regulation** - Article 71
(1) The signalling of prohibition of road traffic is considered realised even only in one of the following situations:
a) by the lighting of a single luminous unit of the device with intermittent-alternative red light;
b) by the functioning of the sound system;
c) by the horizontal position of a single half-barrier.
(2) The road traffic is considered also prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or the half-barriers are in the course of descending or of rising.
Regulation** - Article 136
(1) At the level crossing with the current railway, the driver of vehicle is obliged to drive with reduced speed and to make sure that from the left side or from the right side no rail vehicle is approaching.
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Regulation** - Article 137
(1) The driver of vehicle may cross the current railway provided with barriers or half-barriers, if these are raised and the light and sound signals do not function, and the signal with intermittent white light with slow cadence is in function.
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Regulation** - Article 138
(1) The driver of vehicle is obliged to stop when:
a) the barriers or the half-barriers are lowered, in the course of lowering or of rising;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are in function;
c) he 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 at paragraph (1) letter c) or, as the case may be, before the stop marking or before the barriers or half-barriers, when these are closed, in the course of lowering or of rising.
* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Regulation of the Road Traffic Code)
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