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

In this situation you intend to enter an intersection with traffic directed with regulatory priority signs and you encounter the “Stop” sign accompanied by the additional panel which indicates, through the thickened line, that the priority roads are the one on the left and the one in front.

The “Stop” sign obliges you to stop before the transversal stop marking applied on the carriageway and, while staying in place, to give priority to the vehicles that come from the priority roads, more exactly to the vehicles that come from the road on the left and to the vehicles that come from the road in front.

The vehicles that come from the road on the right come from a road without priority, just like you, and you must also give priority to these ones because between the vehicle you drive and the vehicles that come from the right a situation of equality is created, in which the rule of the priority from the right will apply.

Therefore, when encountering the sign and the additional panel in the image, you will give priority to all vehicles that move through the intersection.

The correct answer is: A

Recommendations:

The complete explanations of the signs --> Stop, Priority road direction 1 and Priority road direction 2

The behaviour of the driver of the vehicle at the Stop sign - Audio-Video Lesson --> ​Road Traffic Code - The priority of passage given through signs

OUG* - Article 59

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(2) In the intersections, the drivers of the vehicles that turn to the left are obliged to give priority to the vehicles with which they intersect and which move from the right side.
(3) In the intersections with traffic directed by priority signs, the rule of the priority from the right is respected only when two vehicles are to meet, each entering the intersection from a road signalled with a sign having the same meaning of priority or of loss of priority.
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Regulation** - Article 129

(1) The vehicle that moves on a public road on which one of the signs having the meaning: “Priority road”, “Intersection with a road without priority” or “Priority against the traffic from the opposite direction” is installed has priority of passage.
(2) When two vehicles are to meet in an intersection directed by signs, coming from two public roads where signs with the same meaning are installed, the vehicle that comes from the right has priority.

Regulation** - Article 81

(1) The transversal marking consisting of an unbroken line, applied on the width of one or more lanes, indicates the line before which the vehicle must be stopped when encountering the “Stop” sign. Such a marking can be used to indicate the stop line imposed through a light signal, through a command of the traffic police officer who directs the traffic, by the presence of a level crossing with a railway, with a tram line or of a pedestrian crossing. Before the marking that accompanies the “Stop” sign the inscription “Stop” can be applied on the carriageway.
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* 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)