When approaching a level crossing with a railway provided with automatic half‑barriers, the sound signals and red lights being in operation, you have the obligation to reduce the speed and to stop before the half‑barriers.
It is prohibited to bypass the half‑barrier and continue your way, regardless of whether the train is approaching or not.
At level crossings with the railway the reduction of the travelling speed is mandatory, in which case the increase of the speed is prohibited. You must not force the crossing over the railway, or increase the speed so as not to be caught by the closing of the half‑barrier, it is possible to be caught between the lowered half‑barriers and such cases can have a tragic outcome.
The correct answer is: A
OUG* - Article 60
(1) Traffic participants must show increased caution when approaching and crossing the lines of the current or industrial railway, as applicable.
(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 stopping, 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 installations without barriers, the prohibition of road traffic is realised, visually, through the operation of devices with intermittent‑alternative red lights and the extinguishing of the control signalling represented by intermittent white light and, acoustically, through 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 installations with barriers, the signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is realised under the conditions provided in art. 69 paragraph (2), as well as through the lowering in horizontal position of the half‑barriers.
Regulation** - Article 71
(1) The signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is considered realised even in only one of the following situations:
a) through the lighting of a single light unit of the device with intermittent‑alternative red light;
b) through the operation of the sound system;
c) through the horizontal position of a single half‑barrier.
(2) Road traffic is also considered prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or half‑barriers are in the process of lowering or rising.
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 rail 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 half‑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 in operation.
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Regulation** - Article 138
(1) The driver of the vehicle is obliged to stop when:
a) the barriers or half‑barriers are lowered, in the process of lowering or rising;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are in operation;
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 of the railway without passing beyond the signs provided in paragraph (1) letter c) or, as applicable, before the stopping marking or before the barriers or half‑barriers, when these are closed, in the process of lowering or rising.
* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of 12 December 2002 updated (Road Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Regulation of the road code)
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